Open Town Hall (CA) proposed the declaration of a security emergency which, as confirmed by its leader, Guido Manini Rios, I would inform the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Poualthough the president has not yet received any news on the matter.
This Tuesday, Manini Ríos presented the possibility of a declaration of a security emergency while also recommending that the Armed forces work together with the Home Office in the matter.
The proposal was being analyzed by the party, while they were going to communicate with President Lacalle Pou to discuss the issue. However, as confirmed by Telenoche, the president has not yet received any news from the leader of the party. Open Town Hall.
Manini Ríos’ proposal
The presidential candidate for Cabildo Abierto recalled that security was a campaign promise of the Multicolor Coalition and that is why he brought up the idea of a declaration of a security emergency.
“We must study the possibility of declaring the national emergency in terms of security, something that was planned in the commitment for the country signed in 2019,” said the presidential candidate.
On the other hand, Manini Ríos proposed that the Armed forces They should have a greater role in security and work together with the Home Office“A role that does not distort their actions, that is in accordance with their training, their equipment, their weapons, their way of acting, but we believe that they have a very important role in complementing the Ministry of the Interior,” he commented.
A problem that worries Uruguayans
The latest survey conducted by Cifra confirms that 47% of the Uruguayan population considers insecurity to be the main problem that concerns them today.
In this sense, the director of Crifra, Mariana Pomies, He explained that “insecurity” accounts for almost half of the responses to the questionnaire, since this item includes crime, drug trafficking and criminal gangs, among other aspects.
The economy, meanwhile, accounts for almost a third of the responses, reaching 32%. In the breakdown, 18% were concerned about work and unemployment; 12% about inflation, salaries or poverty; and 2% about the country’s economic situation.
“When Uruguayans are thinking about their concerns, what urgently needs to be resolved, it is these two sets of issues,” Pomiés explained, referring to insecurity and the national economy.
“This also explains why all the candidates’ campaigns are so focused there. They talk about insecurity and then they talk about issues related to work, inflation, salaries and prices,” he continued.
In this regard, he pointed out that, historically, since 2012 insecurity was the main problem for Uruguayans until the arrival of the pandemic due to Covid-19, when the economy momentarily became so.
Source: Ambito
