The Electoral Court closed the registry and indicated the number of citizens authorized to vote on June 30.
The Electoral Court carried out the fictitious closure of the registry of those authorized to vote for the internal elections and announced that there are some 2,766,323 citizens who will be able to vote on June 30.
Until yesterday, the number of new registered voters was 228,270, while the objective was 249,496 new voters, so some 21,226 young people did not process their registration. civic credential.
However, the public body will prepare special days to be able to issue the greatest number of remaining credentials before the deadline of April 15, from which the new voters will be enabled to vote in the next elections. Elections 2024 of October, but not in the internal ones.
This Wednesday, the Electoral Court established the cut-off number of 2,766,323 Uruguayan citizens, from which the 10% of those registered in the National Civic Registry who are necessary as signatories for the authorization of plebiscites in the country arise.
The deadline for the meeting of signatures expires next Saturday, April 27, about 6 months before the next Elections 2024 next Sunday, October 27, in accordance with what is provided for in the Constitution.
The two plebiscites currently promoted are Town meeting for the regulation of financial credit institutions and against usury, and the constitutional amendment that promotes PIT-CNT against the social security reform, from which the Pension Savings Fund Administrators would be eliminated (AFAP).
The PIT-CNT is going for the “feat” of achieving the threshold of signatures for its plebiscite
So far, the PIT-CNT has already collected more than 246,527 of the more than 270,000 necessary to enable the plebiscite and its president Marcelo Abdala He expressed confidence in achieving the “feat” of exceeding the threshold before April 27.
“In the month of April we are going to accomplish the feat of achieving the goal of far surpassing, with a lot of light, the signatures that are needed, and thus guarantee that on the last Sunday of October the people can move towards a reform that converts the social Security in a human right fundamental,” the union leader said in the last few hours.
Source: Ambito
