Voting on the bill begins today. Accountability in the Budget Committee integrated with the Treasury of the Chamber of Deputiesbetween races against the clock to be able to close the agreements that allow him to continue his parliamentary trajectory to the last budgetary message with an increase in public spending on the management of Luis Lacalle Pou as president of Uruguay.
The reassignment of games would be the last missing point, the most complex to finish saying for the Multicolor Coalition and his deputies, and the one who delayed the official announcements, at least, since Sunday. However, they are optimistic about reaching an agreement that can be announced today, so that the committee vote can proceed as agreed, and the project can go to plenary.
The Accountability project includes a increase in spending by 20 million dollarsbut the total is earmarked for mental health and addiction prevention and treatment programs, so the big challenge for coalition legislators is to reallocate resources to cover demands for budget increases from different areas —even when there isn’t a effective increase in the budget earmarked for it.
Reassignment in times of short sheet
The tax situation in frank deterioration that the government must manage did not allow large budget increases, even despite the claims of the different areas that, despite the lack of public money, face the increase in needs to cover and costs that do find the way to increase
In this sense, among the priority areas to reallocate resources are the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP)the University of the Republic (Hospital de Clínicas), the National Institute for Adolescent Social Inclusion (Inisa)he Power of attorney and the Prosecutor’s Office, among others. And the pro-government deputies must find a way to distribute the existing money in such a way that everyone is satisfied —with no less detail that to give it to some you have to take it from others.
In this regard, during negotiations with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)They reached an agreement for reallocate close to 200 million pesos, half of the 400 million that they initially wanted. But the changes aren’t written up yet—at least, until last night they weren’t—so there’s nothing set. In addition, there may be more modifications at the time of voting.
Security issues
Another point that legislators must decide is what to do with the increased penalties requested by the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber. Several legislators understand that it is an issue to be dealt with outside of Accountability, but the chief asked for a vote in this instance, at least with regard to the increase in sentences for homicides.
In addition to whether or not to vote within the Surrender, there are also two visions on how to write it. Currently the minimum sentence for simple homicide is 2 years and the maximum 12. The Ministry of Interior He proposed raising it to 6 and 18. This minimum sentence eliminates the possibility of reaching abbreviated agreements, something that was highly criticized by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Given this scenario, the portfolio directed by Heber proposed a substitute that raises the minimum penalty to 4. However, some legislators led by the Colorado Gustavo Zubia, who is also a former prosecutor, they understand that the ideal is to leave the minimum at two and only raise the maximum to 18.
Heber also asked that the article that he considers as a “very special aggravating” circumstance for homicide that is carried out “with or followed by the vilification, mutilation, dismemberment or burning of the body of the victim”.
Source: Ambito
