Uruguay
The Broad Front Will Approve the Accountability Bill Without Changes in the Senate
The governing coalition will use its majority to keep the text as it came out of the Chamber of Deputies. The opposition questioned the decision and submitted dozens of proposed amendments.
The Broad Front will vote in the Senate on the Accountability Bill without introducing changes to the text approved in the Chamber of Deputies, according to Subrayado. With that decision, the bill will be sent at the end of October to the Executive Branch for promulgation and will not have to return to the lower house.
According to that outlet, the governing coalition’s decision renders void the add-ons and amendments proposed in the Senate by National and Colorado lawmakers. Senator Daniel Caggiani said the bill will be approved and that there will be no “third chamber.”
Also according to Subrayado, Caggiani said the opposition submitted around 50 add-ons and substitute proposals, most of them involving increased spending, and questioned that their funding was not specified beyond General Revenues.
From the opposition, National Party senator Graciela Bianchi criticized the Broad Front for moving ahead without changes and said it was turning the Senate into “a government notary office.” She also said the debate was resolved in a way that led to a vote “with the covers closed” and linked the governing coalition’s decision to its majority obtained in the Chamber of Deputies after the agreement with Cabildo Abierto.
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