NGOs not included

[NewsWhore]

Presidential Administrative Secretary Luis Manuel Bonetti has confirmed that NGOs run by legislators and senators would not be included in the 2007 budget. Bonetti says that excluding the NGOs will save the government RD$360 million, and that the NGOs belonging to legislators take up 70% of the budget destined for 1,545 NGOs in the country. The 210 members of the national assembly, 32 senators and 178 deputies had a total of 576 NGOs, which received more than RD$29.5 million a month.

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