The bench coordinators of the government coalition in the Senate agreed to “prioritize” the bill promoted at the beginning of the period by the Cabildo Abierto for the house arrest of those over 65 years of age. The initiative is on the first item on the agenda for the next Constitution and Legislation committee of the upper house on Tuesday, April 11, as confirmed to The Observer the nationalist senator Graciela Bianchi.
“We continue working on the issue and another project was made. Based on the one that is (of the Cabildo), it is a practically new project in the sense that it is a comprehensive regime of house arrest, which are increasingly frequent in the world,” Bianchi maintained, who added that “based on the orientation that was one of the arguments that was most used when approving the Criminal Procedure Code, there must be no prisoners without conviction.”
“We are going to contribute this integral project to the commission, and in the treatment of the subject, by resolution of the coalition that gave priority to this subject”, declared Bianchi. The senators of the ruling party in this area intend to meet in the previous half hour to join positions during the meeting.
Asked about the informal negotiations that place this project as one of the conditions of the Cabildo Abierto to approve the retirement reform that is being discussed in Deputies, Bianchi stated that the members of the commission “do not take charge.”
“If everything that is being said – and it offends us – were true, we would have dealt with it in the commission last Tuesday, instead of dealing with the dismissal of the mayor of Florencio Sánchez,” Bianchi considered.
Secondly, the agenda includes the project (also from Cabildo Abierto) to restructure debts of individuals, to which is added an alternative formulated by MPP senator, Charles Carrera.
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Bianchi stated that the political trial requested by the Montevideo Departmental Board for Mayor Carolina Cosse will follow “the process determined by the Constitution of the Republic, which she seems to be unaware of.”
The defenses presented this Thursday by the head of the Broad Front to Vice President Beatriz Argimón will now go to the Constitution and Legislation Commission, and that Tuesday after Easter they will be given input.
“It does not mean that it will be dealt with on that day, but I am ready for it to be discussed in an extraordinary session. Our will is to end this issue as soon as possible,” Bianchi concluded.
The commission must prepare a report and the Chamber of Senators will have the last word. In any case, a political trial requires special majorities (some votes should come from the Broad Front itself), so it is highly unlikely that it will succeed.
