Parliament did not validate the request of the opposition mayors. There was only one vote in favor, from Senator Jorge Gandini.
He Senate almost unanimously rejected the dismissal of the Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, when dealing with the request for impeachment against the departmental head, which was promoted by opposition councilors from the capital.
The motion was rejected with 22 of 23 votes, Being the Senator Jorge Gandini the only one who spoke in favor. In arguing his decision, he expressed: “I don’t want them to use my vote to say that the mayor had the unanimous support of the entire Parliament.” Thus, he questioned the alleged lack of responses from the departmental head to the opposition’s requests for a report.
Parliament ruled with a single article where it was decided that “no merit found to proceed with the dismissal of the mayor of Montevideo, engineer Carolina Cosse, from her position, in accordance with the provisions of articles 93, 102, 103 and 296 of the Constitution of the Republic”.
From the broad front, he Senator Charles Carrera argued that “There is no violation of the Constitution” by Cosse, in relation to the alleged lack of responses to requests for reports from the opposition. In turn, he considered that “an impeachment without foundation is serious, we must respect the republican form of government, democracy and the popular will”.
In turn, the Senator Sergio Botana, indicated that the Senate “is making a very serious mistake when dealing with this issue, which should never have been dealt with.” In fact, he asked that the file be returned to commission, although the initiative did not prosper.
Beatriz Argimón Senado.jpg
Gandini insisted that “there was a violation of the Constitution”
Senator Gandini insisted that “There is clearly a violation of the Constitution” in the attitude of the Montevidean mayor, being the only one to demonstrate in favor of Cosse’s removal from office.
“I do not want them to use my vote to say that the mayor had the unanimous support of the entire Parliament,” he said, echoing that the FA was going to call a press conference. And she added: “So, at least they will say tonight that she received the support, but not unanimously, because I am going to vote for the impeachment and the corresponding sanction to Mrs. Carolina Cosse for this, which seems imprudent to me”.
Source: Ambito
