Uruguay
The Broad Front will keep the Accountability Bill unchanged and plans to send a separate bill
The governing party is moving toward passing the text in the Senate without changes to avoid sending it back to the House of Representatives. The opposition questions the lack of room to correct articles, and the Broad Front defends its strategy.
The Accountability Bill was one step away from approval after nearly three months of parliamentary debate, following the Broad Front’s decision not to introduce changes in the Senate so the bill would not have to return to the House of Representatives, according to El País.
According to that outlet, the Senate plenary is expected to vote on the initiative next Monday, while this Friday will be the final working day for the Budget Committee integrated with Finance. At the same time, the governing party decided to promote a complementary bill with other points linked to the Accountability Bill.
That parallel text will include, according to El País, matters such as funding for the National Dairy Institute, the State Assets Agency and additional support for scholarships at the Technological University of Uruguay.
Government senator Sebastián Sabini defended the position of keeping unchanged the bill approved in the House of Representatives, where there was an agreement with the two Cabildo Abierto lawmakers. According to his remarks reported by El País, dialogue cannot be demanded when, in his view, the opposition was unwilling to talk from the start of the process. He also said that during the debate there was a “belligerent” attitude from some lawmakers, with “disrespect,” “personal attacks” and “disparagements.”
In the same vein, Daniel Caggiani had said that the opposition closed itself off to supporting the initiative and thus also lost the chance to influence the wording of the bill, El País reported.
From the opposition, Javier García told El País that the situation has no precedent and questioned reaching the vote without correcting errors in the bill. He also said that the delegations from different agencies that appeared before the committee were “just for show,” since there was no room to modify the text.
During the committee debate, the Ministry of Economy and Finance appeared. There, Minister Gabriel Oddone defended the wording and upheld the projected growth of Gross Domestic Product of 1.6% for this year, even after a 0.8% drop in activity between April-June and January-March in seasonally adjusted terms, and 0.5% compared with the second quarter of 2025, always according to El País.
In that context, Pedro Bordaberry questioned the minister and warned about the need for predictability and credibility in official figures to encourage investment. García, for his part, said the economic situation shows concrete data beyond expectations, considered the impact of the drought understandable and also mentioned political factors, such as unrest at the port. He also criticized some proposals from Labor and Social Security Minister Juan Castillo, including advance notice for layoffs.
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