Guido Manini Ríos warned that if accessions are not achieved by April 27, “a golden opportunity” will be lost.
The senator and leader of Open Town Hall (CA) who will also be a pre-candidate for the presidency of Uruguay for his party, Guido Manini Ríosannounced that the political space has already collected 160,000 signatures to enable the debt restructuring plebiscite of natural persons. The total needed is 270,000 signatures.
The deadline to submit to the Electoral Court the 270,000 signatures that will enable the possibility of carrying out a plebiscite together with the October general elections expires on April 27, and Town meeting He has just over a month to gather the missing signatures. However, Manini Ríos assured that the party has already gathered a total of 160,000 supporters to carry out the popular consultation regarding the restructuring of debts of individuals and against usury.
“We are confident that we will reach the signatures,” the senator said at a press conference, despite the fact that they still have to gather 110,000 more signatures.
In any case, and despite the confidence exhibited, Manini Ríos put on the table the possibility that, in the end, they will not be able to achieve the objective and the plebiscite is truncated; or that, eventually, the result of the consultation in October will be negative. In that case, he warned that “if this train passes and we lose this possibility, the only thing we will have left in the future is to complain, to complain until the last day of our lives.”
“This is one golden opportunity“, concluded Manini Ríos, in relation to putting an end to “the very harsh conditions imposed by lenders”, as well as the types of credit they grant and the State’s failure to comply with what, since Town meeting, consider situations of usury.
About 10,000 signatures in a month
At the end of February, Manini Ríos had announced that Town meeting It already had 150,000 signatures officially recorded to be able to carry out the plebiscite for the debt restructuring bill. At that time, the lobby leader had highlighted the momentum of militancy and optimism in reaching the final number of necessary accessions.
However, almost a month passed since those statements, and the updated figure only counted about 10,000 new accessions. In that sense, there remain doubts that the party can really carry out the popular consultation in October, an initiative that has possibly been overshadowed by another larger incursion: the signature gathering campaign by the PIT-CNT to reform the Constitution in matters of social Security, which not only entails more far-reaching action, but also greater risks for the government.
Source: Ambito
