On June 30, the extension for the expiration of the passbooks expires and there are about 108 thousand permits that are going to expire from that date. The Congress of Mayors evaluate an extensionfor the last time, of the validity of driving licenses due to the concern of some departmental governments that a “bottleneck” will be generated in the coming days.
The president of Congress and mayor of Florida, Guillermo López, said at a press conference that they are “analyzing the situation”, since it is not uniform in all the country’s mayors. “In many departments of the interior the agenda is practically up to date, so that backlog through the offices closed during the pandemic has already been awarded. There are other departments [en los] no. That they come with a tail and with many notebooks that should be renewed quickly, “she said.
“We are evaluating lengthening, but for the last time. Because Uruguayans also sometimes need to know that it is up to that point and that we have to go through the renewal process,” López said.
According to the official data accessed The Observer, there are 108,771 permits that could be lost. little more than 22 thousand correspond to Montevideowhile in Canelones there will be almost 20 thousand expired notebooks. Municipalities with smaller structures, such as Soriano, Rivera and Colonia, will have to face about 5,000 maturities each.
“All the agendas are already enabled in each departmental government to renew the national driving license,” recalled the mayor and warned that a new extension in the deadline for the renewal of the driver’s license would be exceptional: “This ends in some time,” he warned.