Ivan Posada, deputy for the Independent Party, will present this Tuesday a Bill to repeal the mandatory nature of the elections of the Social Security Bank (BPS). The bill also includes removing the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages for all BPS elections.
Considering some modifications, It is the third time that the deputy has proposed repealing the mandatory nature of these elections. The first was in the first term of government of Tabaré Vázquez and the second in 2011, during the presidency of José Mujica.
The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, had also presented a project in 2016 to repeal the mandatory nature of BPS elections as well as university and Codicen elections. The initiative was not successful either.
Posada told The Observer that the reasons for eliminating the mandatory nature of the BPS elections are mainly the ignorance of the citizens about the applicants and that this translates into “a high rate of voided and blank votes“He added that these are elections with” different characteristics “to the national and departmental elections, that the deputy does consider that their mandatory nature is necessary.
Mieres said Thursday at a press conference that “it does not seem sensible” that the BPS elections are mandatory and he ruled against the fines that must be paid in case of not going to vote next Sunday, November 28.
