Revisory Assembly meets today

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After yesterday's approval of the new electronic system that will be used during the process of constitutional reform, the president of the National Assembly, Reinaldo Pared Perez, assured reporters that everything was ready for the start-up of the process. The session is set for 3pm. Pared Perez and Assembly vice president Julio Cesar Valentin agreed that the most controversial points of the reform process, which will generate the most heated debates and on which there is no consensus among the political parties or the other power sectors, should be delayed. These issues are presidential re-election, the reform of the judicial power, nationality, and Article 30 that refers to the conception of life, an issue that has produced a face-off between churches and one sector of the Congress. However, the PRSC is not in agreement with this position and party spokesperson Ramon Rogelio Genao thinks that none of the points on the agenda should be postponed or pushed to the later sessions of the Assembly, without debates that lead to their approval or rejection, and this position will be submitted to the Assembly. On the issue of abortion, Pared Perez affirmed that that it is not a topic for constitutional reform, but for the Penal Code, whose discussion is in the hands of a special commission of deputies headed by Jose Ricardo Taveras from the National Progressive Force. Nevertheless, he is in favor of the article remaining just as sent by the Executive Branch. On the question of the time estimated to complete the constitutional reform, Valentin said that no time limit has been set, but they will work tirelessly to give the country a new Constitution. The Assembly members will begin the session this afternoon, once again going over some aspects of the regulations that will govern the debates, beyond those introduced by the Senate. They will also take on the discussion of the preamble, the introduction submitted by the President.

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