He National Party decided to take down the signage placed in Montevideo within the framework of the internal elections and allocate it to a charitable purpose, after the controversy that arose that even led to the presentation of a project to prohibit this practice.
In this way, the PN learned from what happened last year, when it was fined $300,000 after being sued by the Montevideo City Hall for not removing the signage in time.
On this occasion, the List 71 The National Party’s deputy decided to remove the posters with a novel proposal. “These thousands of posters will be used to make recycled folders that will be donated to educational institutions,” said the deputy. Juan Rodriguez.
The controversy over the billboards in Montevideo
Discussions about pre-election posters are common in Montevideo, to the point that the Legislation Commission of the Departmental Board He submitted a bill seeking to ban it, but later decided to withdraw it.
The initiative, which proposed fines of up to 20 Adjustable Units (UR) for individuals or political parties, had been launched by Fabian Bravetti, Nationalist councillor, who admitted that “it would generate resistance, not from ordinary citizens who see that the signage is useless and only makes the city dirty, but from many in the political system who do politics the old-fashioned way.”
“If we want a clean city, if we want clean campaigns, we cannot be the first to go out and dirty the city,” said the young leader of the National Party.
A new crossing through the posters
Added to this is the recent clash between leaders of the coalition with the Montevideo City Hall, which issued a notice about removing signage to avoid sanctions.
The white senator, Javier Garcia, He said at the time that this was an attempt to “silence ideas.” His partner Open Town Hall, Guido Manini Rios, He considered the initiative to be “a bit too much.”
However, since the IM, Ximena Muniz, Director of Financial Resources, clarified that “although political advertising is exempt, the physical medium where the poster is carried must be regularized,” emphasizing that it was a warning to private individuals and not to political parties.
Source: Ambito
