He Wide Front (FA) announced that it will present a bill in October to regulate the financing of political parties.
The project will take as a basis and specifically modify some guidelines of a previous one, which did not prosper in the Parliament during the last legislature. The opposition forces seek to have it addressed once the current discussion of the Accountability.
The Broad Front deputy, Mariano Tucciassured this Thursday at a press conference that “times have changed (since the current law)” and that “there are a series of threats (in the Uruguay) that must be anticipated”, in reference to the influence of drug trafficking in the electoral campaigns of other Latin American countries.
Principle of agreement between the government and the FA to discuss the bill
This Thursday, the Special Commission for Legislative Purposes (for the Financing of Democracy) of the Chamber of Deputies met to discuss modifications to Law 18,485, of May 11, 2009.
About this, Tucci He maintained that the FA is seeking a change in the work regime of this Commission, so that it operates on a weekly basis starting October 5. The ruling party and the opposition party have reached an agreement in principle to address the issue.
“We must take into account not only improving transparency in electoral processes, but also the permanent financing of political parties,” he noted. Tucci.
The deputy of Colorado Party (PC), Conrado Rodriguezpresident of the Commission, stated that all the different political parties are aware of “the situations that are occurring in other countries.”
“That raises some alarm lights and makes us feel the need to update this legislation from 2009,” he commented. Rodriguez.
The president of the Special Commission emphasized the fact that all political parties agree that there must be much stronger oversight mechanisms in the Uruguayand that the Multicolor Coalition intends that the Electoral Court be “the ruler of all law enforcement.”
Source: Ambito
