The Senate will discuss the bill that seeks to modify the voting system in view of the next elections. The debate will take place at 2:00 p.m. and the educational financing bill will also be discussed.
The Senate will debate this Wednesday in a key session that will seek to promote a part of the electoral reform: Lawmakers will discuss the Single Paper Ballot with the aim of modifying the voting system for the next elections elections. In addition, the educational financing project will be voted on and the SIDE Decree.
During the meeting of Parliamentary Work, After hours of discussion, the Senate bloc leaders and the vice president Victoria Villarruel They finally reached an agreement that The session this Thursday will be heldwhich will discuss educational financing and the modification of the ballot project, which have been partially approved by the House of Representatives. The debate will begin at 2 p.m.
At the beginning of the year, the ruling party, which had just come to power, presented an electoral reform that included the elimination of the PASO, the application of the single-member constituency system and transparency in financing for political parties, among other key issues. However, the electoral section was left out of the Bases law – approved at the end of June – and the purple party will only propose modifying the ballot.
What is the Single Paper Ballot?
In this electoral mechanism, all candidates competing for the same office are presented to the voter on a single ballot. That is, One role for each category: governor, mayor, deputy, senator, councilor.
The candidates are displayed with the logo and name of the alliance, the name of the list and the photo of the incumbents, while the substitutes appear only with their names. It can be said that it goes from a suffrage by political force, as happens with the traditional ballot, to another based on personal attributes.
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Although BUP designs may be different depending on the jurisdictionsNext to each competitor, the ballots usually have a box to select a single candidate with a pen.
Senate: fingerprint system put into operation to control attendance
Starting this Thursday, All Senate employees They will have to enter Congress through a fingerprint system to verify your attendance at the workplace.
The provision signed by the owner of the Senate, Victoria Villarruelaims to “combat employees who collect their salary but do not go to their workplace (also called ‘ñoquis’)”, according to reports from the Upper House.
This new measure comes just days after one of the senators of La Libertad Avanza, Bartholomew Abdalasaid that 13 of his advisers Congress They are in their political campaign in Saint Louis to be governor. “I need to keep the territory alive. My wish is to be governor”he confessed during a television interview.
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