Carlos Camy’s project reached the necessary signatures for it to be voted on in the next elections.
The Electoral Court received the signatures of the senators and deputies for the constitutional reform that would enable the night raids through a plebiscite that citizens will vote on next year.
The proposal of the senator of the National Party, Carlos Camy, needed the will of two fifths of the general Assembly to be promoted, that is, 52 signatures among deputies and senators. However, the project obtained a total of 71 signatureswhich is equivalent to 55% of the total Parliament.
The signatures corresponded to deputies and senators of the Colorado Party, Town meeting, National Party, People’s Party and Intransigent Radical Ecologist Party (PERI) and none corresponded to Broad Front, despite the fact that the senator had anticipated having the votes of all political parties.
What is the role of the Electoral Court?
By submitting signatures to the Electoral Court The ministers of the Electoral Court were informed so that the state body could carry out the implementation of the plebiscite that will be voted on in the next presidential elections, as established by the Magna Carta.
The Electoral Affairs Commission of the Court will be in charge of the implementation and will also define whether there will be one or two ballots in the plebiscite. The minister of Electoral Court, José Garchitorena commented that the work of this commission is to ensure that there are ballots in the voting rooms and to provide for plebiscites in the tally sheet.
“What does the Electoral Court prior to each election act is to regulate the election. In this case there will be a regulation on the plebiscite so that it can be voted together with the national elections next October,” the minister said on Channel 5.
A key measure to combat drug trafficking and organized crime
According to Senator Camy, Uruguay It is one of the four countries in the world, within a group of 203 nations, that does not have night raids enabled. “Organized crime and fundamentally drug trafficking take advantage of this advantage that gives them Constitution of the Republic to facilitate their activity at night and we know what happens in our neighborhoods, in our towns,” he assured.
“What we are modifying in this proposal is to extend what is currently enabled during the day also at night with express guarantees. I would say that it is a doubly guaranteeing proposal because it requires the express intervention of the judge to do a trespass night that will have to do it based on what the law determines and the way in which the law establishes how to proceed,” said the senator.
Source: Ambito
