After collecting rejections on all fronts, the proposal promoted by Álvaro Perrone was withdrawn from the articles of Accountability.
Town meeting He gave up his attempt to establish a cap on traffic fines for speeding and withdrew the addendum presented to the Bill of Accountability, for which reason the Chamber of Deputies voted on the articles of the budgetary message for the last stage of the administration of Luis Lacalle Pou in the presidency of Uruguay without having to settle on the subject.
The lobbying initiative, promoted mainly by the deputy Alvaro Perrone —in such a way that it led him to face the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) and the Congress of Mayors—, consisted of capping the fines charged for speeding in 5 Resettable Units (UR)equivalent today to about 8,000 pesos.
However, before the widespread rejection of the proposal — and weak support internally in the sector led by Guido Manini Rios—, Town meeting withdrew the addendum presented on the Accountability, despite the fact that it had been approved in commission, after a coordination instance between the pro-government legislators.
In that sense, the broad front He had already warned that he would vote against in the room, like the Independent Party. For their part, the Colorados had determined freedom of action in their bench, while the Nationalists were divided. In short, the outlook was not encouraging, so the proposal ended up being withdrawn from the articles, amid accusations by Perrone against the white quartermasters to “pressure” their legislators to prevent their project from prospering, thus financing the Frente Amplio mayors Caroline Cosse and Yamandu Orsi.
The Congress of Mayors warned with resorting to the Court
One of the most vehement rejections of the initiative proposed by Álvaro Perrone was that of Congress of Mayorswhich considered the project as “violating” the Constitution and violates the departmental autonomies, for which, if approved, they would resort to the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ).
The department heads unanimously resolved yesterday to reject the initiative proposed by Town meeting, from which the fines due to speeding they would have a maximum value of 5 UR, when today the limit 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.”
Source: Ambito
