The Media law continues to generate tensions within the Multicolor Coalition and this time the presidential candidate for Open Town Hall, Guido Manini Rios, pointed at the Colorado Party and he assured that they are “playing around” with the project but that they will finally end up voting in favor.
Earlier this month, the Colorados asked for the second time for the extension of the vote on the bill due to the internal disputes generated by the controversial Article 72previously, they had asked for it to be done once the internal elections were over. “The Colorados are messing around but they will end up voting for this law no matter what. What happens is that now they have to justify why they delayed the vote for two months,” said the presidential candidate for Town meeting.
In this regard, he assured that the law will be approved in the Parliament and that the Executive Branch will not veto Article 72. “It will be approved and I am convinced that there will be no veto. There is no reason to veto an article that proposes common sense: that political information should be serious and truthful. I believe that no one can be hurt by that unless they are willing to provide information that is neither serious, nor truthful, nor proportionate,” he added.
“They will vote for it, I am convinced, and it will not be vetoed by anyone either,” he concluded in a conversation with Radio Carve.
The doubts of the Colorado Party
After requesting the extension, the Colorado senator, Conrad Rodriguez, He explained the reason for the request and commented on the doubts surrounding article 72. “It is a violation of the right of freedom of the press Yet the freedom of expressionwhich is sacred to us and we want to protect. But if we were to reject that article in the vote, we would be rejecting all the articles of the Senate’s amendments,” the senator said at the time.
The changes made to the Senate must be approved in Deputies as a whole block, which creates a dilemma within the Colorado Party since, among them, is the controversial article.
“The Senate made a mistake with the article,” said Rodriguez. “It is a tool that is not good for a government to interfere with the content of what a journalist says. How can we tell a journalist what he has to report and how he has to report it?” he questioned.
The role of the Executive Branch
In this regard, Rodriguez said that the request for postponement also corresponds to a lack of agreement within the Colorado Party. “We have small nuances. Personally, I think that what we have to do is approve the Senate’s modifications and publicly ask the Executive power to veto Article 72 so that it does not come into force,” he said.
Regarding the possibility that the postponement has to do with waiting for the Executive Branch to decide for or against the article, and the possible measures that it may take, Rodríguez left the door open. “Obviously, if there were news from the Executive Branch, Executive power, “There may be a change in the position regarding voting definitively on the bill not in August, but in July,” he commented.
However, the senator stressed that, in the event that the Executive does not carry out the repeal, it would be necessary for the Colorado Party to present a bill to veto the article. With this, Rodriguez insisted that it is necessary to vote on the law before the legislative renewal following the elections.
Source: Ambito
