The chancellor Omar Paganini will appear at the Parliament and will give explanations to representatives of the Wide Front due to the more than 30 discretionary hirings of leaders of the National Party and Colorado Party in the Joint Technical Commission (CTM) Big jump.
In mid-December, the minister had already attended the International Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputieswhere he expressed everything linked to Big Jump. However, since Wide Front They decided to quote Paganini again to be aware of the changes that had occurred in the CTM.
The minister will appear in front of the Permanent Commission, which is made up of four senators and seven deputies. There, Paganini will have an hour to present the progress of compliance with the requests in Deputies in mid-October, while the legislators will have half an hour each to make their proposals.
October orders that have not yet been fulfilled
It was during October of last year that Deputies made a series of requests to the CTM. Among them, the resignation of the officials who joined the binational organization directly – among whom were 10 councilors of the National Party -, the resignation of the three members of the Uruguayan delegation of the CTM of Big Jump and an audit of its management.
However, the deputy of the Frente Amplio, Nicolás Vieraassured that “there is still a need for the Executive power comply with what Parliament resolved”, since of the three requests by Deputies, only the beginning of the audit was being fulfilled. In coincidence, the deputy of Town meeting, Guillermo Domenech, called for “unrestricted compliance with what was resolved by the Chamber of Deputies”.
The meeting before the appearance
The chancellor came to meet with legislators of the National Party yesterday to organize the politician’s appearance at the Parliament. From there, the senator of the National Party, Jorge Gandini, assured that this State has done everything in its power regarding the contracts, through the management of the Chancellery.
In that sense, he stated that some hired they resigned, while others were not rehired after the end of the relationship with the commission. On the other hand, the majority changed their relationship and their contracts, which expire when the contract period ends. current government.
Meanwhile, the politician assured that some officials, through compliance with the protection by labor law generated in the commission, resolved to maintain their contractual relationship in the CTM.
The accusation of the Frente Amplio
According to him Broad Front, The former director of the CTM, Carlos Albisu, directly hired several councilors of the National Party, with high salaries and the tax benefits that working for Salto Grande implies, such as, for example, exemption from paying the Personal Income Tax (IRPF).
Furthermore, the opposition points out the award of budget items for 200 million pesos as a maneuver that the Frente Amplio accuses of being “clientelistic.” In that sense, the mayor of cannelloni and Broad Front presidential candidate, Yamandu Orsipublished through his X (Twitter) account a resolution of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) signed by the president Luis Lacalle Pou where a credit reinforcement of 200 million pesos for the delegation was approved.
“At this point, leaving the bucket and the chain doesn’t seem so serious, the problem is that if they continue like this, a lot of people will go down the well,” said Orsi, who went further and added that “this type of resource management, fruit of clientelismit hurts institutions and democracy.”
In turn, the senator Daniel Caggianialso a member of the opposition party, told Telemundo that the political force “is concerned about the political clientelism that has grown significantly in Salto Grande.”
“There are more than 30 officials who have joined on a hitchhike basis, without competition, with salaries of 120,000 pesos and up, almost 400,000 (pesos),” Caggiani said. “Unfortunately (Salto Grande) ends up being an electoral and political loot for some ruling parties.”
Source: Ambito
