Presidency considers whether removable power project Laura Chinchilla

PLN and PUSC asking keep proposal as an option to lower electricity rate

Government deputy seeks to dismiss because 'the context already had a radical change'

July 09th,2014

An electricity bill presented by the government of Laura Chinchilla to finish his first year is now controversial, and the Presidency of the Republic, now in command of Luis Guillermo Solís, do not know if you can remove it from the current parliament.

Moreover, still do not know if want to remove or keep active.

It's called Power and Contingency Plan proposes to extend the margins of private hydropower generation, one of the ways to bring down electricity rates, according to members of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC).

Different government legislator believes Javier Cambronero, deputy head of the bed of the Citizen Action Party (PAC).

He asked President Solis out of the legislative process, but does not have the answer.

Lawyers for the Presidency of the Republic are studying whether it is possible to file a draft submitted by the Executive, but in a previous administration.

This was explained Melvin Jimenez, Minister of the Presidency, who replied that there is no position taken on whether to support or reject the project fund. "The first is to solve if we can remove it or not," the chief replied to a query in this medium.

In favor of keeping PUSC and are members of the National Liberation Party (PLN); against, the Broad Front, as Cambronero deputies, and the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the authorities made the withdrawal request to the committee of MPs.

"This project responds to a vision associated with hydropower, but the context and took a radical turn. We are in a national debate diversification of the energy mix, "said Cambronero.

Juan Luis Jiménez, chief PLN deputies, said the project would "cooperate with President campaign pledge to lower electricity tariffs."

"We are concerned that in 18 months is when a definition. In 18 months we are in season again! Ninety days is enough. "

Solís The government aims to take one and a half line a proposal to guarantee power supply and more accessible to the population rates

Source: La Nación