The controversial additive that he proposed Town meeting to vote for approval of the Media law in it Parliament reignites the tension between the party leading Guido Manini Ríos and the rest of the Republican Coalition.
At a time when some legislators of the National Party they pressure for a veto to the president Luis Lacalle Pou, the precandidate Alvaro Delgado He warned that the lobbying initiative “is not applicable,” while Manini Ríos himself assured that the criticism is nothing more than “a smokescreen.”
Consulted at a press conference, Slim admitted that “he may not agree” with the additive, noting that he is “in favor of the freedom of the press”, while he recalled that “there is no body that controls or sanctions.”
This is how he referred to the passage of the initiative that establishes that all regulated media must “provide citizens with information, analysis, opinions, comments and evaluations in a complete manner, impartial, serious, rigorous, plural and balanced among political actors”.
“If this government has done anything, it is to ensure freedom of the press,” said the white candidate and warned: “They saw me always be very critical and I was the reporting member against the media law of the government of the Broad Front”.
In defense of the current norm, he stated: “What is done is to repeal the Broad Front media law that created an organization that was a revolver fired at the media, where they regulated, among other things, the content. They evaluated, monitored, They regulated and sanctioned the media. That’s right. censorship and threat”.
Manini Ríos accused critics of generating “a smoke screen”
Manini Rios agreed with Delgado when he assured in a dialogue with Radio Oriental that the new norm “is replacing a bad law, so bad that it was not applied.” However, in the face of criticism from different sectors and even the promise of Carolina Cosse to repeal it if she is elected president, the lobbyist leader counterattacked: “If you want to see in this a attack on freedom of expression, I think that basically what they are doing is a smokescreen to not talk about what this law favors, that there is a concentration of some media. There are other aspects that could be criticized.”
Regarding the questions, he assured that “they really cause surprise because who doubts that it should be like this,” in reference to the rigorous and impartial information. In fact, Manini Rios He pointed out that other parties in the Coalition “do not dare to confront those who really own the media or the economic groups.”
“There are several concepts that one could say one is not in favor of, but no one wants to talk about that; “They want to talk about this additive because this is easier to talk about,” stated the senator and, regarding the possibility of veto, He recalled: “It seems to me that these deputies are wrong and are disagreeing with the position that their own party took in the Senate”.
Source: Ambito
