The Colorado Party would vote together with the Broad Front for a new text. The nationalists insist on promoting an alternative.
The controversial home prison bill for the elderly promoted by Open Town Hall (CA) increasingly distanced from the possibility of being treated in the Parliament of Uruguaywhile the coalition tries to channel the initiative demanded by the lobbyists behind an alternative presented by the National Party. Meanwhile, the Colorados line up with the broad front behind a second project.
Despite the insistence of the president Luis Lacalle Pou in the unity of the government coalition —perhaps more of an internal message or warning than an attempt to convince outsiders—, the reality is that CA’s rudeness has not only generated discomfort among pro-government legislators, but has enabled that the different parties are even more encouraged to distance themselves from their partners. It is that, even in the form of a coalition, given the proximity of the election year, They also try to bring water for their mill.
In this context, the at least controversial Cabildo Abierto bill that seeks to establish house arrest for people over 70 years of age —originally, for people over 65—, with which the sector led by Guido Manini Rios even negotiated their votes for the social security reform, does not seem to have much hope of seeing the light become law. In its place, the National Party promotes an initiative drafted by the white senator Carmen Asiaín.
The new problem is that the sector citizens of the Colorado Party, with the former Minister of Environment Adrian Pena at the head, gave parliamentary status on Tuesday to the suggestions that the parliamentary commissioner had transferred Juan Miguel Petite, introducing it in the Constitution Commission as a new bill, according to El Observador. The dilemma is that Colorados understand that the recommendations are a autonomous initiativewhile the nationalists warn that these statements were included in the Asiaín project.
New discontents among the pro-government legislators
Among whites, the disagreement It is now with its most stable partners, the Colorado Party: the move of Ciudadanos —and of Peña, particularly, who chairs the Constitution Commission— introduces a scenario in which the colorados and the Broad Front would vote together for the same project, making Petit’s the only one with the necessary votes to be approved.
Meanwhile, and based on what the two alternatives at stake propose, the vast majority in the Parliament understand that the Cabildo Abierto project has already been ruled out. In this sense, both the text of the whites and the one that aligns the Colorado Party and the Broad Front consider a comprehensive system of house arrest that also covers other vulnerable populations —with previous medical and expert reports, and not only to people over a certain age and effectively, an issue that various sectors pointed out as a custom provision for those convicted of crimes against humanity.
For their part, although the lobbyists insist that nothing has been defined yet, they would be willing to vote for the National Party’s project, even if they do not consider it satisfactory.
Beyond the internal discrepancies, it is likely that the vote on this initiative will take more than a month and a half, while the priority in the Senate is the bill of Accountabilitywhich went through the Chamber of Deputies with little margin and that promises to be a new complex issue for the government coalition.
Source: Ambito
