SANTO DOMINGO.- Young Industrialists Association (Anje) president Ricardo Bonetti today said the must penalize law electricity theft, because the measure would significantly invigorate the sector.

He said it would be impossible for the country to reach the competitiveness levels with international markets, because energy costs twice as much as in other nations. “We must make the electrical sector a competitive sector, this puts us at a disadvantage with the international competition, that as well as our fiscal and tax measures are those which we very clearly must have.”

Interviewed in the Digital 15 program, the entrepreneur proposed measures to prevent losses in the distribution systems, because of thefts, political clientelism. He said there must be a search for alternative cheaper energies, such as hydroelectric and coal.

As to the summit president Leonel Fernandez proposed, Bonetti said he believes in the encounter’s sincerity, noting that in other countries similar events have been positive.

He said some of the topics that must be included in the debate are investment in education, the energy crisis, the public debt and government corruption. “The creation of a national long term development plan that protects the country in future difficulties must also be discussed.”