2024 may become the year with the highest number of plebiscites, If the five possible ones are ratified, one of which has already assured its participation: that of the night raids, since he National Party reached the necessary signatures during the week in the Parliament.
In addition to the ruling party’s proposal, there are four others that are fighting to reach the elections 2024. Among the most mentioned is the one promoted by PIT-CNT to modify the law social security reform and the one that carries forward Town meeting (CA) for the debt restructuring to natural persons.
To these texts, which still must gather the signatures of 10% of those registered in the National Civic Registry, they add that of the movement Sovereign Uruguay, that proposes modifying the agreements between the State and mega-companies; and the initiative that aims to establish more criteria to choose the next court prosecutor, promoted by the deputy Eduardo Lust.
If the 5 proposals are confirmed, it will be the year with the largest plebiscites in the history of the country, which had 4 proposals in 1966, although on that occasion they were all initiatives to amend the Constitution. If something similar happens, it is expected that the ballots will be differentiated by color, as on that occasion, when the Orange Reform.
The ruling party goes for night raids
The plebiscite that involves the development of night raids was promoted by senator Carlos Camy, which obtained a total of 71 signatures (55% of Parliament) and will have its ballot in next year’s elections. The initiative had the support of different political sectors and the president Luis Lacalle Pou He also expressed his support.
Camy maintained that it is “a necessary and possible measure to combat drug trafficking and organized crime”, while considering that there are only four countries in the world that did not enable this possibility.
The PIT-CNT against the social security reform
One of the hottest debates has to do with the plebiscite of the PIT-CNT to modify the social security reform, which could mean a shock to the country’s accounts and, according to the director of the Center for Studies of Economic and Social Reality (Ceres), Ignacio Munyo, could generate cost overruns and loss of investment grade.
The proposal even generated divided positions in the Broad Front, with some sectors detaching themselves from the project and with the recent endorsement of the mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate Carolina Cosse, who signed the proposal considering that “it is a bad law.”
This plebiscite was harshly questioned by different sectors of the coalition and even the mayor of cannelloni and FA pre-candidate, Yamandu Orsi, admitted that “it must be changed, but without erasing the AFAP”.
The initiative “For a fair debt”
Another of the most widespread plebiscites is the restructuring of the debt of individuals promoted Town meeting, seeks to modify article 52 of the Constitution and establish the “prohibition of usury”.
Among twenty articles, the project establishes “the maximum interest for every concept in a Annual Effective Rate of 30% on the amounts converted to Indexed Units (UI)“, while imposing penalties against the “contraveners” of the measures and pointing out that “no one may be deprived of their freedom for debts.”
This initiative is looked askance by the banks, which believe that the majority of the population will not validate the proposal because “international evidence” proves that it is disadvantageous to legislate on these issues and warn that the proposed usury cap could hold back credit. .
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The proposal of Sovereign Uruguay
The movement Sovereign Uruguay, in turn, presented a project that aims to regulate the investment contracts made by the State, postulating that legislative approval be mandatory “in cases in which the contract implies subjection of the country to foreign jurisdiction, legal immunity is provided to the private company, or when obligations that extend further are placed on the State. beyond the current government period.”
In this direction, the initiative aims to reduce the number of signatures necessary to promote a referendum from 25% to 10% of the electoral roll and seeks to declare void the contract signed in 2017 between the government and the company. UPM.
Eduardo Lust and the court prosecutor
Finally, the deputy’s text appears Eduardo Lust, that after moving away from Town meeting will present himself as a presidential candidate for the Environmental Constitutional Party. The legislator intends that the charge of court prosecutor be filled 60 days after the vacancy is generated.
Thus, Lust echoed a reality that finds the different political spaces without reaching an agreement to define the replacement of Juan Gomez, surrogate court prosecutor. Thus, the text establishes that, if two months after the position becomes vacant there is no agreement, the senior officer with the greatest seniority in the Prosecutor’s Office will take over.
Source: Ambito
