All the goods and services are susceptible to be expropriated

The State will be able to dictate measures to avoid illegal rises of prices of goods and services, and it could even lower them in the cases that are necessary (File)

In the annual message to the National Assembly, president Hugo Chavez exhorted to the cabinet economic to create a law, or to reform one existing, that allowed them “to act with forcefulness against the speculators, already beginning by foods”.

, Five days after the request, the National Assembly yesterday approved in first discussion the reform of the Law of Defense to the People in the Access to Goods and services, promulgated via Qualifying, in which now the measurement of expropriation to all the goods and services is extended, “in order that the application of the preventive measures includes to the goods and services that are not declared of first necessity”.

The modification of article 5 establishes that “public utility and social interest are declared of all the goods necessary to develop the activities of production, manufacture, import, storing, transport, distribution and commercialization of goods and services”. The word was excluded “foods”, that the effective law emphasizes, to extend the rank of reach of the disposition.

In addition, “the Executive will be able to initiate the expropriation of the goods without he mediates for it declaration of public utility and social interest on the part of the National Assembly”.

Also, the law gives power to the Executive for “initiating the procedure expropiatorio when they have been committed illicit economic and administrative” when it incurs remarcaje of prices; exhibition with preference of supplies and promotions; speculation, monopolizing, boycott, and that sells products in evil been.

In these cases, the State will be able to adopt the measurement of occupation, temporary operativity and seizure, while expropiatorio lasts the procedure that will be materialized by means of the immediate possession.

It is contemplated that in the cases of expropriation, according to the anticipated thing in article 5, “it will be possible to be compensated or to be diminished of the amount of the indemnification corresponding to fines, the caused sanctions and damages”.

President Chávez in his speeches of the past Friday and Saturday showed that he must himself impel the socialist commerce, that includes products to low prices and if some establishment speculates is expropriated. Butcher when indicating went that the goods will be taken.

“As what it serves to us that they close a supermarket by a day, they make fun of, on the following day they place and they lift the opening price of other products and recover, not what they lost, but what they stopped robbing the previous day. No, I propose expropriation of those businesses. And I do not want that we lose a single day more”.

Now the law will allow “to dictate the necessary measures him of exceptional character in everything or leaves from the national territory, to avoid the illegal rise of prices, monopolizing and boycott of products or to establish reductions of prices of goods and tariffs of declared services of first necessity”.

During his interventions it instructed to the Parliament and its own executive train to that it reforms the legal marks. The deputies already did their work with the reform Law of the Indepabis, that lays the way to him to declare of public utility all the goods and services.

Before pressure on the part of the parliamentarians, the discussion of that reform was had predicted to initiate it in afternoon of yesterday without the project. The right of word of Luis Tascon gave margin for would distribute the text to the deputies.

Angie Contreras C.
Mayela Arms H.
THE UNIVERSAL ONE