The embarrassment on Tuesday night forced legislators to hold an extraordinary session in the middle of another agenda to deal with the controversial bill.
The vote of the Audiovisual Communication Services Actbetter known as the Media lawis going today for the possibility of a second round in the Chamber of Deputies After the embarrassment of the legislators on Tuesday night: the chamber has been in session since 10 with the Accountability on the agenda, and a motion is planned to be voted on in order to be able to deal with the controversial project again with the modifications sent from the Senate.
The Low camera is set to begin this Wednesday the treatment of the last Accountability Report of the current government administration, presented by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) with inflation and fiscal management as the main themes. Although no major developments are expected on this issue, attention will be focused on whether today, the deputies finally vote on an extension of the session to continue the treatment of the media law.
On Tuesday night, the motion for an extension reached the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the Frente Amplio member Ana Olivera, at 20.04, so it was outside the regulations because it had to be dealt with before the end of the session, at 20. This was also indicated by the legislator of the Carlos Varela Broad Frontwhich generated clashes between the government and the opposition, blaming each other for the failure: the governing coalition pointed to Olivera for not having dealt with the motion in time, while the left-wing coalition pointed to the government’s sloppiness for not providing a greater margin of time for it.
In this Wednesday’s session, it is expected that a vote will be taken on the holding of a extraordinary session in the early hours of the evening, in order to once again discuss the media law. It should be remembered that the bill was already approved in the Senate as “serious” and “urgent”, but it has already been postponed twice and now a third time.
The controversies and conflicts that the law drags on
The misunderstandings and confusion surrounding the extension of the session is not the first controversy surrounding the media law. In fact, the same session on Tuesday maintained uncertainty regarding what the legislators of the Colorado Party, who from the very beginning marked their rejection of the Article 72 added by Town meeting in the Upper House that promotes the political “impartiality” —but which most point to as a risk of censorship of media freedom of expression.
However, after several pressures generated within the coalition, especially by the councilors, the Colorados decided to give the go-ahead in the votes, but with the condition that the Executive power go away that article, a reality that is not yet confirmed.
The peculiarity of this vote is that, as it passes to the third chamber with the modifications made in the Senate, the law must be voted on as a whole.
“If we vote no, nothing will happen, and we want the media law to pass. We have only raised objections to that article. We are analyzing it with the Colorado deputy Martin Melazzi, “It was because of the active participation in the treatment of this project that we decided to vote for it with the conviction that the president will veto it,” said the deputy. Maria Eugenia Rosello, coordinator of the PC bench to La Diaria.
Source: Ambito
