The political force collected 312,825 signatures, but is still not certain that the Electoral Court will validate the popular consultation due to possible rejections.
Open Town Hall (CA) announced that he will continue gathering signatures for his debtors’ plebiscite and that it will be put to a vote in the departmental elections of 2025since it is not certain that the adhesions collected exceed the threshold necessary for the Electoral Court approve the popular consultation.
The senator and presidential candidate of CA, Guido Manini Ríosreported this Thursday at a press conference that the political force reached some 312,825 signatures, but that this number does not give them the security that the more than 275,000 signatures necessary for a plebiscite can be validated.
“We have resolved to continue collecting signatures, so that we can ensure that there will be a plebiscite, that there will be a decision,” Manini Ríos remarked and added: “It will not be in the runoff, whose deadline expired tomorrow (Friday). ) to arrive on time, it will be in the next instance”.
In that sense, the lobbying legislator affirmed that his party “will comply with the Constitution of the Republic”, which says that plebiscites are carried out in the most immediate election six months after the signatures are presented.
Cabildo Abierto could continue collecting signatures until November
The retired military officer mentioned the possibility of CA continuing with the collection of signatures even until November. “If within four months, October or November, we present the signatures, the most immediate election six months later is the departmental election on May 11 (2025).
“This way we ensure that there is a plebiscite. In any case, the date of entry into force of the reform that we propose will always be March 1, 2025,” he pointed out in this regard.
According to Manini Ríos, the preventive stance of his political party responds to the fact that they evaluated “the reality that is occurring in the other plebiscite” (of PIT-CNT), which “has a discard rate of more than 20%.” This situation led CA to reconsider its options, despite exceeding the initial objective, which was 300,000 signatures.
Source: Ambito
