The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ope Pasquet, was forced to adjourn this Tuesday’s session that would deal with a law for the hospitalization of people with addictions in a street situation, which had been proposed by the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES). ).
If it had been approved, this law (modifying the sole article of Law No. 18,787) obliged the State to provide assistance services for these people.
The Colorado Party had requested an intermediate room from 7 to 9 p.m., so that the legislators who so wished could go to the presentation of a book by former president, Julio María Sanguinetti. The event was held in a room at the Radisson hotel, 2.8 kilometers away from the Legislative Palace.
“At 9:00 p.m., the Broad Front – which was in the room as a whole – asked for the time and there were not 33 deputies. The Sanguinetti thing lasted a little longer and we were getting there, ”he told the newspaper. The Observer the colorad deputy Felipe Schipani.
