He failed in general Assembly the vote in the extraordinary session held to debate the partial veto imposed by the Executive power to articles 1, 2 and 3 of the law to cover the labor credits of workers of Galicia Housewhich had been previously approved in the Parliament.
Previously, the Wide Front had raised a motion presented to the president of the general Assembly for a extraordinary session on the 28th of the current month, an initiative that was approved by several senators and deputies of the Parliament.
This decision corresponds to article 138 of the Constitution which establishes that, in the event that a bill has been returned by the Executive power with total or partial objections or observations, “the general Assembly and it will be up to what the three-fifths of the present members of each of the Chambers decide, who may adjust to the observations or reject them, maintaining the sanctioned project.”
However, the vote was close. Of a total of 29 senators, 17 voted to lift the veto and 12 voted not to do so, while in the House of Representatives, there were 97 deputies present: 41 chose to maintain the veto and 56 intended to lift it. The accounts were close, since, with that number of legislators present, the project needed 18 votes in the Senate and 59 in Deputies.
Objections within the ruling party
For the partial veto to be lifted, three fifths of the quorum present at the time of voting. “This generates some calculations that are difficult to predict without knowing the attendance of the legislators. But understanding a chamber where all the legislators are, 78 votes are needed to lift the veto exercised by the President of the Republic. It will be a vote tight,” explained the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sebastian Andujar.
Also before the session, the former Minister of the Interior and current senator, Luis Alberto Heber He announced that he was going to be on the side of the Executive at the time of the vote. “He blacksmithing He will support the president’s position, always. We are the main force of Luis Lacalle Pou, who is a great president, and we are going to argue in general Assembly“he remarked.
“I am rejoining the Senate these days, and I do not have the details to give a serious opinion on the scope of the veto. But there are undoubtedly constitutional aspects that are going to be on the table,” he added.
The objections of the Executive Branch
Last week the president Luis Lacalle Pou defined the partial veto for the law approved in the Parliament which establishes coverage by the State for the labor credits of more than 1,000 former workers of House of Galicia, that remained pending payment after the closure of the health center.
The decision to partially veto the initiative, resisted by former workers, It materialized last Friday and had to do with the articles that refer to the planned funds, since the approved solution implies a disbursement of about 30 million dollars, while the government proposal proposed an expense of 8 million dollars.
In a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the president analyzed economic and justice reasons and defined the veto, considering that some of the former workers have already obtained employment or received a subsidy for unemployment. It is worth remembering that the project of Wide Front was validated by the Senate by 19 to 20 votes thanks to the support of Town meeting, as well as two senators from National Party and one of Colorado Party.
The text contemplates more than 1,000 people laid off and considers that the payment of labor loans to former officials must be financed with the employer insolvency fund, with a limit of 105,000 indexed units, of about 611,000 pesos. At the same time, it provides for the creation of a job bank to which State Health Services Administration (Asse) and private health providers will have to go when they want to hire staff.
Source: Ambito
