The left coalition agrees with the general initiative promoted by Ciudadanos, but there are disagreements regarding moving forward with a constitutional reform.
He Broad Front (FA) will decide on Monday whether, finally, it will accompany a new plebiscite in Uruguay, this time the one driven by the sector Citizens of the Colorado Party that aims to establish in the Constitution entry through competition to mayoral positions. Although the left coalition agrees with the general initiative, discrepancies arise with the mechanism to implement it.
“I am worried that we think that we solve things because we put them in the Constitution,” said the Frente Amplista candidate. Yamandu Orsi, summarizing the main cause of doubts in the left coalition regarding the plebiscite in honor of the deceased senator Adrian Pena, who had presented the project on two occasions, without success. “I think we are going to give the Magna Carta too much specificity (…) I am quite optimistic about these areas,” added the former mayor of Cannelloni.
For his part, the president of the FA, Fernando Pereira, pointed out that “there is a shape theme“We are discussing this a few days after having to present a project that is a constitutional reform,” and that the speed is not going to be what is desired if we seek to advance with legitimacy based on the support of other sectors of the Uruguayan political spectrum.
This is because the initiative must be enabled after the request in the General Assembly, and with the approval of two-fifths of the legislators, with a maximum period of up to six months prior to the national election in October. That is, by April 27 at the latest, the plebiscite must be approved in the Parliament, so there are only 15 days left to get the votes.
For the also pre-candidate Carolina Cosse, “Adrián (Peña)’s proposal was correct.” “I deeply regret that parties of the government coalition that makes up the Colorado Party they have not supported it. “I think it’s time for a political reflection,” she said.
Meanwhile, the senator Eduardo Brenta He maintained that since Wide Front They have no doubt “in the need to carry out legal regulations that effectively provide transparency and that guarantee the right of freedom of citizens wherever they live to give up a job.”
The friction within the Colorado Party
Despite being an initiative originally promoted by Peña, who died last Friday in a traffic accident; and now promoted by his sector, Ciudadanos, which supports the pre-candidacy of Robert Silva, not everyone in it Colorado Party They are lined up behind the eventual plebiscite.
The first to raise his voice of disagreement was the senator Germán Coutinho, who classified the presentation of the plebiscite as “political opportunism.” Coutinho had voted in favor of the project at the time after Peña convinced him, but he claimed that the popular consultation was not discussed within the party and that he ended up finding out about it through the press, as reported by Radio Carve.
According to Silva, the idea is to “promote regulations that, respecting the current constitutional framework, establish competition and merit in the entry and promotion of people hired by departmental governments.” For the pre-candidate, the “constitutional amendment through the mechanism provided for in the Magna Carta “It is fundamental because in our opinion it leaves aside the argument of the constitutionality or not of the proposal that we had carried out.”
Source: Ambito
