08/22/2020 - 20:08
- Clarín.com
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On the night of Friday 21, President Alberto Fernández announced through a series of tweets, surprisingly, the output of a new Decree of Necessity and Urgency, or DNU ,this time linked to telecommunications companies.
"We have decided to declare public services for cell phones, internet services and pay television. In this way we guarantee access to them for everyone," said Fernández.
The information was treated as "last minute" in Telefe Noticias (Telefe, Monday through Friday at 8 pm), the newscast led by Cristina Pérez (47) and Rodolfo Barili, and it was the journalist who expressed her doubts regarding the legality of the project .
"In this context, do you anticipate an immediate prosecution of this issue?" Pérez asked Virginia Porcella , the journalist who developed the issue, taking for granted the conflict that the Executive Power proposal presumes.
Then, Cristina was reading Fernández's tweets, and stopped in one in particular, in which the president announced: "The right of users and consumers is a constitutionally recognized right. Henceforth, there can be no increase without the prior approval of the State ".
Cristina Pérez. (Capture TV).
"Here surely there will also be proposals from companies regarding their own rights over the structure of costs and investments to provide those services and not to mention the guaranteed property rights," said Pérez, who in mid-June had a controversial exchange in I live with the President when the expropriation of Vicentin was being discussed.
Cristina continued to list her gaze on the DNU: "And legal security, respect for the rules under which those contracts were signed, the investments that make it possible for these services to be provided ...", she listed. And then she asked: "To what extent can these companies feel that this is not going to be a business anymore and be forced to withdraw from the market?"
"It is a decree that must later be approved by Congress," Barili clarified to his partner. Cristina agreed with the driver but at the same time added, in a critical tone: "It marks a deepening of the interventionist bias of the State . "
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