President Luis Lacalle Pou would partially veto the law approved in Parliament that contemplates spending US$30 million for labor loans.
President Luis Lacalle Pou ended up defining the partial veto of the law for former workers of House of Galiciaafter the Parliament of Uruguay will vote positively on the project Wide Front in both chambers. Now, the people affected by the closure of the sanatorium and even pro-government legislators are appealing for the veto to be lifted.
The partial veto of Lacalle Pou brought discord even within the Multicolor Coalition and, above all, within the National Party. In that sense, the senator Sergio Botana, The only nationalist who voted in favor of the project in the Upper House, said that he does not understand the president’s decision and announced that he is willing to vote to lift the veto and maintain the law in all its terms.
“I said that it ended up being a kind of cruelty that was inappropriate for sensitivity that the President of the Republic has handled in all cases,” Botana told Channel 10, and noted that we are “with a counseling problem clear”. For the senator, the dissonance with the Executive Branch arises from the advice of the team of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP)who from the beginning was against the project.
Asked if he is willing to vote to lift the veto —for which three-fifths of each Chamber in the General Assembly would be needed— and go against the decision of the president and leader of the National Party, Botana said yes. “We all have the powers granted to us by the Constitution and the law, that is, if we are reasonably convinced of what we must do, we must be constant on that path, we cannot have two faces.”
“I have not been offended when the president uses his right and vetoes an article that I have voted for. It would not be appropriate (for the president to be offended) and even more so when this is clearly based on arguments. It is not for lack of affection for the president, it is not for wanting to have political opposition,” added the white senator. “We are here to do things well doneand when one is convinced of a situation, of its justice, that it complies with the law, that this is how one should act, one must do what must be done no matter what the cost,” he stated.
The former workers will ask that the veto be lifted
Although the official action of partial veto by the president is still missing, the advance of the news has already mobilized the former Casa Galicia workers contemplated in the law in question.
From the Association of Officials of the House of Galicia (Afuncag) They say they do not understand why the government intervenes so that the law is not enforced, and they will speak with legislators if the issue reaches the General Assembly.
“Political actors from the same National Party have already come out to say that on this occasion they did not accompany, but that if a General Assembly were held They will accompany the lifting of the veto“said the president of Afuncag, Flor Constanzo, to the Informal Breakfast program.
“Lawyers advise taking a trial. But the workers cannot because the B.P.S. It has all the folders. Until the BPS says pay or don’t pay, you can’t start. The trials Of course they will be done if we are not paid,” he added.
Source: Ambito
