Town meeting (AC) officially launched the campaign to collect signatures to force a plebiscite for the restructuring of debts to individuals in the general elections of October 2024.
The announcement of the campaign “Against usury and for a fair debt” (or simply “For a fair debt”) took place this Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in the anteroom of the Senate.
The senator and leader of CA, Guido Manini Rioscommented in a subsequent press conference that “it is proposing to recover thousands and thousands of uruguayans who today are outside the formal credit (market)”, so that they have a second chance.
The retired military man pointed out that the party project is similar to “what city governments often do with delinquent taxpayers,” who are “restructured the debt and make it easy for them to pay.”
“Undercover lenders are proliferating throughout the country today, and this is what hundreds of thousands of Uruguayans have been forced to do as a result of the reality they are experiencing,” he said. Manini Rios.
The senator maintained that “we will have to ask the other political sectors why they did not support the CA bill, there was a moment when the Commission voted unanimously, and a week later the bill was not approved in the Senate.”
Cabildo Abierto promotes the plebiscite of debtors after failing to reach agreements in the government
“They tried to achieve a law for three years, the contribution of other political groups was sought and there was none,” he shot. Manini Rios, who added that “now that we are going to a plebiscite, political actors concerned about the indebtedness of the people are beginning to appear.”
The former Commander-in-Chief of the Army He affirmed that “thousands of Uruguayans are without a light on the horizon, without the possibility of paying, and totally out of any financial circuit.”
Source: Ambito
