Town meeting (CA) announced that in just under two months it has already added 70,000 signatures in its campaign to achieve a plebiscite for the bill debt restructuring to natural persons in relation to elections Next year.
The member party of the Multicolor Coalition added support from different sectors, including space One Uruguay, as well as legislators of the National Party, such are the cases of the representative for Paysandú, Nancy Núñez Sóler, and the senator Juan Straneo.
In this way, the party led by the senator Guido Manini Ríos has already collected 25% of the 280,000 signatures that must be collected for the plebiscite to be viable before April 27, 2024, the deadline established by the Electoral Court.
To the current strategy of installing tables in all locations, Town meeting It will add advertising campaigns and tours in the short term. In turn, the deputy Alvaro Perrone He anticipated that they will add “real testimonies with Uruguayans who suffer from extreme debt and who have no solution.”
Days ago, his own Manini Rios He told AM 770 Radio Oriental that the collection “continues at an excellent pace” and specified that “Uruguayans perceive that they have a golden opportunity to change a reality that has plagued them for many years.”
More than 657,000 Uruguayans are irrecoverable debtors
A report of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) revealed that more than 657,000 people were classified as debtors irrecoverable, 34.5% of the total of 1,905,155 people who were identified as debtors.
Although over-indebtedness is a structural problem, the BCU presented a report called “Indebtedness of natural persons in Uruguay”, in which 705,534 were classified as debtors with payment capacity difficulties, representing 29.2% of the total loans granted by the banking and financial system in the country, with an average of 165,864 pesos in terms of amounts owed.
Furthermore, among the irrecoverable debtors, some 289,388 people (15.2%) meet the double condition of having other defaults registered in the database of Equifax —exClearing of Reports.
Source: Ambito
