It is expected that in the next few days the request for impeachment promoted by mayors of the multicolor coalition in the Departmental Board of Montevideo (JDM) against the mayor, Carolina Cosse, will enter Parliament.
In the first instance there was unanimity in the JDM between the National Party and the Colorado Party, in promoting this tool, but within the coalition in general, very high level figures have rejected that it is a good idea, that it is proportional or that it is something positive at this political moment.
There were even members of the five parties who said they had not been consulted and, with the passing of days, several senators have already been announcing that they are not going to vote in favor of impeachment, equivalent to a impeachment which is designed to dismiss the intendenta in case she had committed a crime (something that has not happened).
Citizens and Cabildo Abierto do not accompany
The senators from the Ciudadanos sector, from the Colorado Party, Pablo Lanz and Carmen Sanguinetti would be inclined not to vote on the political trial, according to information reported by the newspaper The Observer, citing political sources. For them, the use of this tool is “exaggerated”.
For their part, the also red Germán Coutinho and Raúl Batlle have chosen to remain silent and not yet take a position.
In the Cabildo Abierto party, their senators would not be voting to impeach Cosse either. Although this ultraconservative force does not have mayors in the JDM, Senator Guillermo Domenech considers that this movement is “a game of political artifice” and that he does not see the entire National Party as a group voting for it. Domenech thinks it will be shelved.
The Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peña, a referent of Ciudadanos, also described the action as disproportionate, but pointed out that, in his opinion, “the IM is wrong in not responding in a timely manner, not attending when the councilors summon it. I understand and support them, but there are shared responsibilities. If we set the precedent that any violation of the Constitution justifies a political trial, we are going to have a rain of lawsuits that, although they cannot advance, make the climate rarefied.
Back in the JDM, the mayor of Ciudadanos, Gustavo Facciola, was the first to back down: despite the fact that he had voted for the request for impeachment, he later refused to sign the grounds for the proposal that would be sent to Parliament. interviewed by TV Cityacknowledged that he understands that “these situations are for someone who commits a serious crime.”
