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Two more are named to telecom authority For The CAFTA Report
The turf war between the Asamblea Legislativa and the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos ended Friday, Dec. 19, with the confirmation of the final two members of a telecom oversight panel. The legislature had rejected two of the four names submitted a week earlier. Getting 33 votes was Maryleana Méndez Sáenz. Also approved with 31 votes was Wálter Herrera Cantillo. They will join Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez Gutiérrez and George Petrie Miley Rojas on the board of directors of the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones. Dec. 19 was the last scheduled day of the legislature. The next regularly scheduled day is Jan. 12. The vote was crucial because some legal opinions say that the free trade treaty with the United States could not come into effect unless the panel had been named. The treaty is supposed to become active Jan. 1. There still are some problems because officials found errors in two of the 13 pieces of implementing legislation the lawmakers passed. The regulating authority had named four persons and submitted the names to the legislature as the law requries. But one of the nominees was a former legislature for the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana. Lawmakers had the option of not voting on the appointments. In that case, the nominations would have become finalized without legislative action. Just a day before this would have happened lawmakers brought the nominations onto the floor and voted down two names, including that of the former legislator. Friday, the nominations went smoother, although one lawmaker, José Merino del Río, complained that Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández, assembly president, called for a vote before all laawmakers who wanted to do so had a chance to speak. Pacheco denied that. Lawmakers also gave final approval to a measure that allocates $117.5 million to three state banks to give them more flexibility in lending. |
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