The left coalition has divided internal positions regarding the plebiscite, with the Communist Party leading the negative position on support.
The Political Table of the Broad Front (FA) defines today the plebiscite proposed by the sector will be supported Citizens of the Colorado Party to establish constitutionally that the income to the Departmental Intendencies of Uruguay be by contest. He Communist Party He already announced his rejection of the initiative.
After the left coalition postponed its decision on Monday until this Wednesday due to the lack of time to properly analyze the proposal, today the Wide Front will make a decision within its Political Table to define a position regarding the red initiative, promoted as a tribute to the late senator Adrian Pena —who had presented bills on the subject on two occasions.
The idea of Ciudadanos is to promote a plebiscite that, if achieved – based on a special majority of two thirds in the Parliament- and be approved – with the popular vote in the national elections in October – establishes through a Constitutional reform he contest as a condition of entry into the Municipalities throughout the country, to achieve greater transparency and efficiency in departmental work.
What position does the FA have?
The reasons for delay in Wide Front They respond to the fact that, although they agree with the initiative itself – in fact, they supported the project presented by Peña with their votes -, the modality in which Ciudadanos intend to install the contests does not find support in all sectors of the coalition. As several opposition figures have already pointed out, there is a problem more of form than content in the proposal, and the idea of the plebiscite is not completely convincing.
He Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) is the one who leads the position against the plebiscite “due to a problem of political opportunity As the general secretary of the PCU and substitute senator explained to Subrayado, Juan Castillo.
“In principle we are against it. We do not find elements to be in favor at this time and at this juncture of a new initiative of Constitutional reform. One thing is the possibility of discussing a law, as we had already agreed, which was the votes of the Broad Front, But it is a very different matter to discuss a constitutional reform in less than a week or 10 days, it does not seem serious,” he expressed in this regard.
“It is not a problem of form, of content, it is a problem of political opportunity. We do not see the political opportunity to join an initiative of this type. Furthermore, in this case it is not even a political party that proposes it, it is a minority sector within a minority party also in the government coalition, and it does so after there was no agreement within the government coalition. So, whichever way you look at it, this is a government problemof the current government coalition and the smallest party within that sector, well, it is their problem, not the Wide Front“Castillo added.
Source: Ambito
