The president made the decision against the controversial initiative approved in Parliament at the request of Cabildo Abierto.
President Luis Lacalle Pou partially vetoed article 636 of the Accountability, which establishes the prohibition of prosecutors from working as lawyers in the private criminal field for up to three years after leaving office. Prosecutor’s Office, which was considered unconstitutional by the sector.
The issue, which generated strong rejection from the Association of Fiscal Magistrates of Uruguay (AMFU)had been proposed by Town meeting (CA) and validated by the Parliament, although the discomfort of Lacalle Pou for the concession.
The president vetoed the provision, but only for criminal prosecutors, while maintaining the inhibition for criminal prosecutors. Court. As it turned out, he does not believe that this type of incompatibilities between public and private functions are a good measure.
According to the standard, “the Court Prosecutor and Attorney General of the nation and the Deputy Court Prosecutor “They will be inhibited for three years, from their dismissal, from intervening in matters processed before the organizations in which they performed functions, sponsoring or assisting third parties.”
The objections of the Association of Prosecutors
The article generated criticism and forceful measures from the AMFU, whose president Willian Rosa He believed that the veto was not “very feasible” and questioned on that occasion that there was “a cruelty against the prosecutors.”
Pink, In addition to a series of salary and working conditions claims, he had asked “that the unconstitutional inhibition of the Prosecutors after the Cease, approved in a week in the Senate”.
In addition to the request for unconstitutionality, some political leaders were considering raising the claim to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
There was a veto for two other articles
Besides, The street Pou provided the veto for article 664 of the Accountability linked to the control and supervision of butcher shops, which established a modification in the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC) so that the National Meat Institute (INAC) only has power in Montevideo and thus give greater interference to the municipalities.
The remaining veto was for article 266, linked to the 10-year renewal of radio licenses, which the president also left void.
Source: Ambito
