The former mayor of Artigas had his citizenship suspended after being sentenced to 14 months in prison with probation.
He former mayor of Artigas, Pablo Caramwas disqualified from holding public office after his citizenship was suspended following a sentence of 14 months in prison with probation under the Overtime case, a scandal that shook the National Party (PN).
This Wednesday, the member of the Board of Transparency and Public Ethics (Jutep), Ana Ferrarisexplained to MVD Noticias that, based on article 80 of the Constitution, Caram cannot hold the position of mayor because his citizenship has been suspended after being convicted along with his brother and sister-in-law for the irregular payment of overtime in the Artigas Municipality.
“We are talking about a high-ranking official at the departmental level involved in events of this nature,” he said. Ferraris, who remembered that the criminal complaint It was made in February 2023, but the issue was only taken up in September of that year, and from then until now it had never been discussed.
Number 4 of article 80 of the National Constitution It establishes that citizenship is suspended: “By a sentence imposing a penalty of banishment, prison, penitentiary or disqualification from the exercise of political rights during the term of the sentence.”
“They assumed they were corrupt”
The deputy of the Broad Front (FA) by Artigas, Nicholas Lorenzosaid that, by accepting the abbreviated trial, Caram and the officials of the Municipality involved “assumed that they are corrupt.”
“By making an abbreviated agreement, one assumes that one committed a crime, because if I propose a sentence and you accept that sentence, and then you say ‘let’s agree so that the sentence is not so serious’, then you are assuming ‘I was corrupt’, and that is what he said. Pablo Caram and Valentina Dos Santos“, he stressed.
On the other hand, Emiliano Soravillaformer general secretary of the Municipality of Artigas and currently a deputy of the National Partysaid that Caram’s “management” was “very good”, even though, based on the “irregularities noted”, there may be some sector of the population of Artigas that “may feel some kind of disappointment”.
Source: Ambito
