The senator and leader of Open Town Hall, Guido Manini Ríoswas optimistic about achieving the 300,000 signatures necessary to reach the plebiscite for the bill debt restructuring to natural persons in Uruguay; and announced that they have already officially recorded 150,000 adhesions.
Manini Rios He stated that “two months after finishing the process of collecting signatures, we are optimistic given the momentum that has been seen in recent weeks in the militancy and in many people who now decidedly went out door-to-door in different neighborhoods, in different locations to which they had never been.
In that sense, the senator insisted that “there has been a greening and a great boost in recent weeks that makes us optimistic.”
In addition, he explained that the party has more than 300,000 ballots distributed throughout the country, of which people who requested them to distribute among colleagues, friends and family. Ballots that “we still do not have them registered and they are signed,” he said. Manini Rios in dialogue with the radio program Justos y sinners. “We are in that collection process. Today we actually have the half of the signatures needed“But we are optimistic that they will all be there before April 27,” he added.
Asked about the controversy over the alleged payments of 20 pesos per signature offered to activists within the campaign to collect signatures for the plebiscite, the lobbyist leader explained that “the party decided to pay the more than 80 groups a Viatic”.
“We had received comments about militants who did not have money even for the bus to go to the neighborhoods door to door or for those who have to be in a square all day, at a fixed point, something to eat,” he noted. reason for the decision on travel expenses. “Some groups, to ensure the productivity of those who are working, said ‘I will pay you the per diem per signature’, to make a calculation. But more than anything it is so that the minimum resources to be able to act on this do not have to come out of the militants’ diminished pockets,” he said. Manini Rios and added: “It’s not like I pay you for signing, but for the work and expenses you have during the day we give you support.”
A comprehensive security policy
Regarding the issue of unsafety, which has taken on relevant importance in recent weeks both among citizens and among political leaders within the framework of the campaign, Manini Rios considered that “in election year “Everyone seems to have the solutions when it comes to security.”
“Clearly it is an issue that is going to take first place in the concerns and priorities of Uruguayans. “This is once again, as it was in 2019, a central issue,” said the lobbying senator.
“We say what we said in 2019, what we said in 2020 and in all these years. We personally took documents to the different ministers of the Inside. This must be addressed in its entirety, comprehensive policy, “that affects security policies on the one hand, but also the effective fight against drugs,” he said, in line with previous statements and even a public dispute with the National Drug Board (JND).
“If we don’t fix the drug problem which is a central issue and one of the most serious that we are experiencing in the country, there will never be a solution to the issue of security. A good part of the crime today is related to the issue of drugs,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
