Legislators from the National Liberation (PLN) and Christian Social Unity (PUSC) parties approved a set of motions to allow better benefits for hybrid vehicles in the text to encourage the use of electric transport.
Maureen Clarke, Silvia Sánchez, Marta Arauz and Aracelly Segura from the PLN and William Alvarado from the PUSC voted in favor of the amendments in the Government and Administration Committee of the Legislative Assembly.
Marcela Guerrero, proponent of the initiative, questioned those legislators’ change of heart, because until last week they supported the text and rejected the motions presented by the Otto Guevara.
Guerrero lamented that an election year is sold to external economic pressures to the Assembly and the electoral line of some presidential candidates is fulfilled at the expense of a project that encourages a zero emissions technology.
We will continue to pollute, keeping the high costs of Social Security for respiratory diseases because of the poor quality of our air, so that some politicians can fulfill their electoral promises to their sponsors,”
added the legislator.
The file that seeks to promote electric transport establishes a series of graduated exemptions for electric vehicles and other zero emission technologies, but with a cap of 24 base salaries ($ 18,000) to ensure that there is no negative effect on the state’s finances.
However, there are exemptions without a limit for other technologies that are not zero emissions, such as hybrid gasoline vehicles, so the project set the same cap for the current regulations.