Consumers' alliance: "Supply is the underlying problem in the country"

León Parilli, president of the National Alliance of Users and Consumers (Anauco), stressed that the government needed to cope with supply issues and called for a national consensus to find solutions.

León Parilli, the president of the National Alliance of Users and Consumers (Anauco), asserted that the "underlying problem" of lines in grocery stores in Venezuela has to do with supply. He also rejected the thesis formulated by the government that citizens "have a lot of money and that there are many products available."

He stressed that in addition to fitful supply, other irregularities in the system, such as smuggling and overpriced products are the result of demand exceeding supply, "that is the truth," he said.

Parilli rejected some government officials' statements that the opposition is accountable for long lines of people trying to buy in stores.

"If the opposition is making the lines, then there is plenty of opposition, because there are many people in lines. I think nothing can lead a person to buy food in order to harm the government; there is an actual need to buy food," he stated. 

Parilli stressed that the government needed to cope with supply issues and urged the Executive Office to gather with the private sector to find a solution to the problem.

Source: http://www.eluniversal.com/