The plenary session of the Senate Chamber generally approved the bill Accountabilitythe latest budget message with increased spending on the management of Luis Lacalle Pou in the presidency of Uruguay.
The vote was on general text and was validated by the entire Multicolor Coalition, obtaining 17 of 29 votes. He was absent Irene Moreira, from Cabildo Abierto (CA). The activity in the Senate will continue this Wednesday from 10, when the vote is taken for the articulate specifically, a task that could even extend until Thursday.
In any case, once it has approval in the Upper House, the project will return to the Chamber of Deputies so that the modifications made by the senators can be voted on there, including the multiple additives that were incorporated into the text approved by the representatives in the first instance.
In this regard, the president of the Budget Commission integrated with the Treasury of the Senate, the nationalist Rodrigo Blas, He maintained that “no major developments” are expected in the plenary debate, as the project “arrives in broad agreement within the coalition,” with guaranteed votes.
Reallocation of resources for 30.5 million dollars
An element of great importance during the debate in the committee of the Upper House, a condition for, mainly, Town meeting to grant their votes, was the reallocation of resources that, originally, proposed an increase in spending of 20 million dollars only for mental health and addiction treatment and prevention programs.
After the negotiations carried out within the Multicolor Coalition, The project approved in the Commission and which is being debated in the Senate plenary today, added reassignments for 30.5 million dollars.
Among them, the item to reinforce the salaries of the Armed forces, in the order of 10 million dollars, which will allow everyone from soldiers to lieutenant colonels to receive a salary increase of 1,000 pesos as of its entry into force on January 1, 2024.
In turn, 4.8 million dollars were allocated for the health public, contemplating the remodeling of the Clinics Hospital4.2 million dollars for security, and 3.6 million more dollars for education, among other reallocations.
Likewise, an article was approved by which the Power of attorney must require the medical history of inmates to grant house arrest, after what was the scandal over sending drug traffickers to serve their sentences from their homes, among other measures.
Source: Ambito
