Former workers of House of Galicia They anticipated that they will sue the State after the failure in the vote of the general Assembly to lift the partial veto defined by the president Luis Lacalle Pou and they warned that this scenario could cost “three times as much.”
The representative of the former employees of the health mutual, Flor Costanzo, told Telemundo that “the trials are a fact,” when referring to the intention of those affected by the presidential veto of the project that proposed allocating 30 million dollars, compared to the fund of 8 million dollars that the Executive.
After the tight vote in the Parliament, the former workers of House of Galicia They echoed the situation and Costanzo He admitted: “We have not come out of this shock. We will see how to continue, we will reorganize ourselves, but the trials are a fact.”
Although he admitted that “surely some workers will accept 170,000 pesos when they are owed much more because people today do not have enough to eat,” he said that “there are many colleagues who will accept them, others who will not and will go to trial and the State “You’re going to have to pay three times more than you would have to pay now.”
Costanzo spoke of “sadness” and “trampled rights”
The representative of the former employees pointed out that the session in the Parliament, where they were evicted from the bars after the tight vote, they lived “with a lot of sadness and pain,” while warning: “It’s not just about money, it’s about trampled rights, that we are facing part of a government that does not respect laws”.
However, he noted that “the vast majority of Senate and of the associations he has spoken, but nevertheless it did not matter.” When questioning the position of Lacalle Pou, Costanzo stated: “The only thing that was interesting was that the Executive made a decision. A handful of people decide for 2,200.”
A close vote in the General Assembly
When defining what happened with the presidential veto, 17 senators voted to lift it and 12 not to, while in the House of Representatives 41 deputies chose to maintain the veto and 56 intended to lift it, remaining close to the respective necessary numbers: 18 in the Senate and 59 in Deputies.
It is worth remembering that article 138 of the Constitution 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.”
Source: Ambito
