Minister Luis Alberto Heber confirmed that President Luis Lacalle Pou decided to give budgetary priority to these areas.
A total of 20 million dollars will invest Uruguay in matters like mental health and addictions according to the priorities that were outlined when laying down the guidelines for Accountability, after a meeting of one and a half hours between President Luis Lacalle Pou and his Council of Ministers.
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, confirmed at a press conference that public spending is “several million more than in 2019” regarding public spending. At a press conference, he also highlighted that this figure was reached despite the fact that “the money we had allocated for the covid fund” and in this sense, he highlighted: “We continue to spend at levels well above 2019.”
By acting as spokesperson for the meeting, heber pointed out that efforts will be focused on ensuring that these 20 million dollars be used to “serve like never before in the history of the Uruguay attention was given to mental health and addictions”, areas where Lacalle Pou He announced that he intended to focus.
The minister considered these items “fundamental” and maintained that they are “directly related” to the portfolio he heads. “Unfortunately the people deprived of liberty who are in the National Institute of Rehabilitation These are two issues that abound and that generate more crime,” he said.
Along the same lines, he highlighted the role of the Police and he highlighted the importance of his mental health, considering that agents “are often faced with traumatic situations.” He even admitted that “really problematic situations have been generated in their actions.”
In addition, the official pointed out that other 330 million dollars “They are going to execute in the matter of houses to be able to eradicate the settlements.”
As a review, Heber specified that during the Accountability of 2021 the main thing was to “spend on early childhood”, while last year the priority went through the salary recovery. He also spoke of “an effort” for the improvement to reach the private sector.
A meeting amid internal tensions
The Accountability has to be sent to Parliament before June 30, the deadline for the government’s last budget message. The meeting took place amid tensions in the ruling coalition, given the possibility of an increase in spending before the elections and after the conflicts over the social security reform, which ended in an agreement after the Cabildo Abierto (CA) threatened to leave space.
In fact, the sector led by Guido Manini Rios made noise in recent days, complicating the reformist agenda of the government of Lacalle Pou and even threatening the stability of the Multicolor Coalition.
Source: Ambito
