The Electoral Court He announced that they have already agreed on the ballots for the two plebiscites that will be voted on in the October presidential elections, They assured that there will only be ballots for “YES” and that a total of 4.5 million will be printed for each reform.
In the presidential elections in October, two plebiscites will be put to popular vote. One of them, promoted by the PIT-CNT which proposes a change in the social security reform voted on last year and introduced in the elections thanks to popular support. While the other, promoted by the ruling party, proposes the possibility of carrying out night raids and was introduced through the parliamentary process.
In this way, different colors were defined for each of the ballots, where the color for the reform of social security will be white and the color for night raids will be golden yellow. “The Court defined that the ballots be of different colors to facilitate their distinction to the voters,” said the minister of the Electoral Court, Jose Garchitorena, to Telemundo.
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Meanwhile, he clarified that there will only be ballots to vote for support of the initiative. “Voting is only for yes, so people who want to support it can put one or both ballots next to the voting sheet. Those who do not support the project will be able to vote for the initiative. Constitutional reform, They don’t have to put a ballot in the envelope,” he explained.
For his part, he commented that each ballot will have an explanation of the initiative. “The ballot transcribes the draft constitutional reform. In the case of night raids there is no problem because it is an article of the Constitution, which is a paragraph. In the case of social security, it is a very long text, so we decided that the ballot will be printed on both sides to put it in its entirety,” he explained.
Regarding the number of printed ballots, Garchitorena explained that they were based on the last plebiscite case. “Taking into account the precedent of 2019, four and a half million of each reform will be made. The promoters of the plebiscites can order ballots to be made and distribute them at their own expense,” he said.
Those who did not arrive
During 2023, several plebiscites were proposed that did not come to fruition. Among them, the one on the restructuring of the debt of individuals promoted by Town meeting, seeks to modify article 52 of the Constitution and establish the “prohibition of usury”.
Among twenty articles, the project establishes “the maximum interest for all concepts in a Annual Effective Rate 30% on amounts converted to Indexed Units (IU)“, while imposing penalties against “violators” of the measures and stating that “no one may be deprived of their freedom for debt.” So far, Cabildo Abierto has not obtained the necessary signatures and hopes to present the project in the departmental elections of 2025.
For its part, the movement Sovereign Uruguay, had presented a project that aimed to regulate the investment contracts made by the State, claiming that legislative approval be mandatory “in cases where the contract implies submission of the country to foreign jurisdiction, legal immunity is granted to the private company, or when obligations are placed on the State that extend beyond the current period of government.”
Eduardo Lust, for his part, had proposed that the position of Court Prosecutor be filled 60 days after the vacancy arises. In this way, the text established that, if two months after the position becomes vacant there is no agreement, the person with the longest seniority in the Prosecutor’s Office will take over.
Source: Ambito
