The Chamber of Deputies approved the project Accountability, which had already been voted for Senate, on a day that featured the premiere of electronic vote for representatives to express their decision, replacing the traditional show of hands system.
The initiative was supported by the 54 deputies of the Multicolor Coalition, while it was rejected by 44 legislators of the Broad Front. Thus, the changes made by the senators were validated, mainly due to proposals of Open Council, linked to salary reallocations for military personnel.
The president of the Lower House, Sebastián Andújar (National Party), He highlighted the “symbolic” objective of the session and stated: “From now on it will be the system that is used. It is about getting used to it and ensuring that it does not have flaws.”
For Andújar, This modality manages to show “transparency” in the Parliament and, among its benefits, he valued: “It shows who is there and who is not and what determination they made. It is good for reasons of representation.”
Prosecutors once again demonstrated against an article
During the day, the Association of Fiscal Magistrates of Uruguay (AMFU) once again expressed their differences with respect to the article voted on within the bill of Accountability which inhibits prosecutors from practicing law in the private sphere for one year after their dismissal.
After the approval of the initiative, the president of the AMFU, Willian Rosa, He maintained that the group was in the venue and expressed: “We left devastated, after two parliamentarians from the ruling party expressed that, despite the doubts or reservations they had regarding the inhibition of Prosecutors, they would still vote for its approval.”
Previously, Pink had anticipated that the prosecutors would go to the legislative Palace to demand “that the unconstitutional inhibition of prosecutors after the dismissal, approved in a week in the Senate”.
Along the same lines, the prosecutor asked “not to leave the Prosecutor’s Office weakened and without resources – at least – until the year 2026″, as well as “that they correct the errors that they admitted making, by giving an increase to judges and not to prosecutors (knowing that they are equal)”.
Other demands were to demand a solution to “the salary inequality suffered by more than 220 assigned prosecutors” and also “to end the harassment that certain actors in the political system permanently carry out towards the Prosecutor’s Office and towards the prosecutors.”
Source: Ambito
