The Association of House Officials of Galicia will hope that the veto can be lifted in the General Assembly, while the president explained that “there is the money that we believe is appropriate.”
President Luis Lacalle Pou finally partially vetoed the law for former workers House of Galiciaand sent the decision to Parliament of Uruguay with “reasons of constitutionality and convenience” as arguments to modify articles 1 to 3; although in a more colloquial way he pointed out that “they threw the burden on us.” For their part, the people affected by the closure of the health center, organized in the Association of Officials of the House of Galicia (Afuncag) They evaluate suing the State.
After the confirmation of the partial veto of the law approved to address the labor credits of former Casa de Galicia employees, the president and spokesperson of Afuncag Flor Constanzo He told Subrayado that they made the decision “with great sadness, with great disappointment,” and that “it did not occur to us that this would happen and it ended up happening.”
Constanzo maintained that they do not share the president’s words and that the money corresponds to them as expressed in law 19,690. “The president decided to go above and beyond the law,” he said. The former workers wait for the general Assembly to lift the veto since pro-government and opposition legislators spoke out on the matter.
“The majority of former Casa de Galicia employees They plan to carry out a trial against the State if we are not given what is due to us,” he said, although he confirmed that they will wait to see how the problem unfolds in Parliament.
For Luis Lacalle Pou, “they threw the burden on them”
After sending the partial veto to Parliament with their respective arguments—“constitutional reasons, economic reasons, reasons of justice”—the president Lacalle Pou He stated that it is “a partial veto, it is not there is no money.” “There is the money that we believe corresponds“, the money that our numbers say, the money that all Uruguayans are going to contribute for workers of a mutual society,” he indicated.
“They threw the burden on us, right? This is not because of a government action, this is because of a maladministration of a mutual company,” said the president.
Given the possibility of starting lawsuits against the stateLacalle Pou was emphatic: “Whoever wants to make a judgment, from our point of view it was not even ours.”
The president indicated that the government’s priority was to ensure a large part of the jobs, the relocation of members and that services continue to be provided in another mutual company. Likewise, he claimed the fact that the Executive Branch has sent a bill to Parliament to address the situation of the workers. “The State sent a bill. Here it is not that we look to the side. Here it is not that we said nothing happens,” she remarked.
Source: Ambito
