The moderate wing of the Association of Bank Employees of Uruguay (AEBU) regained control of the official bank after five years of leadership of the most radical current of the banking union. AEBU indicated that there was a “broad turnout” in the election that ended this week.
The votes began to be counted this Friday and lAgrupación 98 collected 965 votes (710 in Montevideo and 255 in the interior of the country) in the official bench. That left him with 5 positions on the Official Financial Council. It was followed by Group 31957 with 706 votes (3 councillors), 17 (364 votes and 2 councillors), B (353 votes), 1955 (348 votes), and 921 (99 votes).
As usual, list 98 maintained the leadership in private banking, with 1,725 votes (all in Montevideo), out of 580 in 1955, 319 in B, 295 in 17, 178 in 31957.
The so-called Coordinator for Change, made up of four non-front-party leftist lists (319, 575, 810, 999), is the one that has been in charge of leading the AEBU Official Financial Sector Council for five years. On the other hand, list 98 is linked to the union current Articulation of the PIT-CNT, while list 177 is identified with the Communist Party. Traditionally, in the alliance of radical leftist groups, a more combative stance predominates and the idea of maintaining “class independence” with the government of the day, whatever its color.
On the other hand, the AEBU Central Council was won by 98 with 2,719 votes (2,424 in Montevideo and 245 in the interior of the country) with 6 positions. It was followed by B with 899 votes and 2 positions, 1955 (855 votes), 31957 (831 votes), 17 (697 votes) and 921 (126 votes).
Meanwhile, in the Autonomous Board of Retirees and Pensioners The 1925 list was the winner – the only one presented in this sector – for which the five positions of that group will correspond to it.
The number of workers qualified to vote in this instance amounted to 9,190 active members (4,545 official and 4,399 private), 3,984 retirees, 1,317 pensioners, 152 AEBU officials and 94 from the Caja Bancaria.
The positions at stake were those of the members of the Central Council and those of the official financial and private financial sectors, as well as the members of the National Assembly of Delegates, the Disciplinary Council and the Electoral and Fiscal Commissions.
In the interior the votes were on April 22, 25 and 26, while in Montevideo, they took place on April 25, 26, 27 and 28.
