He Congress of Mayors He expressed his maximum rejection of fines for speeding, considering that the project that is advancing in the Parliament is “violating” the Constitution and violates departmental autonomies.
The department heads unanimously resolved to reject the initiative proposed by the deputy of Open Town Hall, Álvaro Perrone, who seeks that the fines due to speeding come to represent the value of 5 Resettable Units (UR), when today its value is 15 UR.
He president of the Congress of Mayors, Fernando Echeverría, He spoke at a press conference and argued about the position taken. “The Intendencies have autonomy by law, it is not on a whim,” he said.
Regarding the refusal to the project, he also mayor of flowers clarified that “it may be that in the Municipalities with the largest population it has an economic incidence, but in the rest the issue of the fines”.
In the same sense, he affirmed that “when one lowers the price so considerably it is like promoting the fines” and countered that there are “more than 430 deaths and more than 25,000 injured in a country of 3 and a half million inhabitants.”
The National Party would not accompany and Perrone points out that this is how they “finance Orsi and Cosse”
The deputies of the National Party supported the initiative in commission, but today, the legislators of the interior think of not accompanying it. Faced with this situation, the lobbyist perrone went to the bone “Congress $ or mayor $ pressured his legislators not to vote on the maximum fine $ (sic),” he wrote on his Twitter account.
In the same sense, he criticized that they are “all working to (Carolina) Cosse and (Yamandú) Orsi, who are the ones who collect the most” and ironized: “The white mayors finance the campaigns of the candidates Broad Front”.
That reaction earned him criticism from the nationalist deputy Álvaro Viviano. “You cannot discuss things from that place. It is an internal decision, discussed, thought, it has nothing to do with these types of factors,” questioned the legislator in dialogue with Telemundo.
Source: Ambito
