The organism rejected that the Parliament can fix the maximum in the fines. From Cabildo Abierto they attribute interest to billing.
A controversy arose between the deputy of Open Town Hall, Álvaro Perrone – who had proposed a cap on the collection of fines during the Accountability – and the Unique Vehicle Income Collection System (Sucive) since they assure that it is unconstitutional for Parliament to impose caps on traffic violations.
The lobbyist deputy proposed an initiative, specifically to speeding tickets, where there was a limit of 5 readjustable units, about 8,000 Uruguayan pesos at present and a proscription of three years from its application. The proposal was approved by the Budget Committee and will be put to a vote in the coming days during the Accountability.
Faced with this, the coordinator of the dirty, Cesar Garciaassured that the Parliament cannot determine the limits of traffic fines since it is unconstitutional. “We ask the lawyers’ room for a legal report regarding the institutionality of the fine system and the legal report categorically states that it is unconstitutional limit the values of the fines as the Parliament would be analyzing”, established García.
García admitted that, although the law has the power to change a lot of things, “departmental autonomy is enshrined in the Constitution and is a scope of protection” and that “as subnational governments we have to defend at all costs”.
The coordinator remarked that the discussion does not go through the issue of the price of the fine but because it is a unconstitutional action. “The one who sets the traffic fines throughout the country, not only those applied by the Municipalities, but those of the entire country, is the Congress of Mayors”, he explained.
Perron’s answer
Faced with the accusation of unconstitutionality of Perrone’s proposal, the deputy responded that “the dirty it is unconstitutional” according to the information that came to him from specialized lawyers. “If we were completely against fines, it would have been easier to draft an article that prohibits the use of these electronic devices on the roads, and with that we would leave the issue at zero,” he said.
To this, he added that “what they are doing is demonstrating that what they are concerned about is collecting and not prevention, they will have to explain it themselves” and clarified that the dirty and the Congress of Mayors They would be the ones that define the gradualness of the maximum value of the fines until the lowest value.
Source: Ambito
