After a long discussion in the House of Representativesthe government managed to put Open Town Hall (CA) on his side, who voted in favor of the new budget for the year 2024, a fact that worried the ruling party since since AC they put their accompaniment on the tightrope due to claims for the military salaries and the budget for Military hospital.
Yesterday, Town meeting He dropped a bomb where he assured that he would vote against the budget for 2024, which was finally approved this morning. From the party led by Guido Manini Rios They assured that in the new surrender there were a lack of resources to improve military salaries and the Military Hospital, in which they demanded 500 million pesos.
However, after raising the concern of the government, which already had the votes against the broad frontfrom Town meeting They decided to vote in favor, but with the promise that the points of claim would be dealt with in instances of the Senate. The vote against AC would have meant leaving the Uruguay without budget modifications, among which was the health and mental plan and addictions to which they would grant 20 million dollars.
“We have made proposals for a long time about the need to increase military salaries. Here we are not asking for anything crazy. We seek to give a signal to these public servers that they are permanently required, that they are the ones that meet the highest workload, that are permanently available and with new missions practically every so often”, expressed Manini Rios.
One more chapter to the coalition drama
It is not the first time that Town meeting generates controversy within the ruling coalition. Yesterday, the nationalist senator referred to the ministers of CA, Raúl Lozano (Housing) and Karina Rando (Public Health) who assured that, in case of voting against, they would have to leave the government.
For his part, the Colorado deputy, conrado rodriguez, assured that the coalition is used to this type of attitude from the most militarized sector of the coalition. We are quite used to these jerks I do not believe that the internal situation of a party defines what is going to be voted in the end in a Accountability. You have to commit yourself for the country,” Rodríguez explained.
What is left to do?
After the general vote in Deputies, there is time until Friday for the Chamber to vote on the 442 articles, to which are added the additives of the Accountability. Of these, as confirmed by the Broad Front, the opposition will vote in favor of 57%.
From there, the bill will go to the Senate on tuesday august 22 where it will be discussed Budget Committee integrated with the Treasury where the articles will be discussed again, taking into account the claims of the Cabildo Abierto. If approved, with a maximum period of 45 days, the project would return to deputies for final approval.
Source: Ambito
