This Monday, May 9, the National Political Table of the Broad Front received the director of the Port representing the left, Alejandra Koch, in order to follow up on the concession to Katoen Natie of the operation of a part of the capital’s port terminal .
One of the irregularities found is the Investment Plan, “because there was no office of the good administrator and ruler, and there was a lack of information to the opposition,” said the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira.
He added that all the economic analyzes determine that the economic deal carried out by Uruguay means that “the State must transfer to the multinational company some 2,000 million dollars in 60 years.”
Pereira questioned that the agreement was made without legal or accounting reports.
He also stated that the representatives of the Broad Front before the Court of Accounts of the Republic have criticized the lack of observations on an agreement that “has flaws” and may mean, for the Uruguayan State, the loss of a million-dollar lawsuit with another company. ”.
“We do not want to remain silent, when an agreement was signed for several generations, without consultation, illegal, unconstitutional, which generates a lack of sovereignty and is abusive for the State,” Pereira sentenced.
Demand
For his part, Senator Charles Carrera said that as a result of the fact that the revocation appeal presented by the FA at the time was not granted, the legislators will file an annulment claim before the Contentious-Administrative Court. “It is sought that an agreement be annulled that was made in violation of the entire national and port legal system.”
He assured that if the proposal is not granted, the Broad Front will appeal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
In addition, the deputies summoned the ministers José Luis Falero (Transport) and Pablo Mieres (Labor) before Parliament, “because the right to political participation has been violated, the agreement was made illegally and unconstitutionally and is inconvenient for the national interests”.
Carrera questioned that it is the largest delivery of national sovereignty in the history of the country. “There is a limitation of the definitions of port policies for 60 years, it will have consequences on two or three generations of Uruguayans, there will be economic consequences on importers, exporters and on each family, in addition to the social consequences as a result of the dismissal of workers.”
He warned that Uruguay cannot modify the Investment Plan that speaks of dredging the port more than 14 meters deep, an impossible obligation that the Uruguayan State assumed without consulting Argentina, because the Rio de la Plata is administered by the Binational Commission.
