The senator and leader of Cabildo Abierto, Guido Manini Riossaid at the closing ceremony of the No for the referendum campaign that those who want to repeal the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC) “look at it from the point of view of the criminal.”
In the act held this Friday afternoon in the Plaza de La Bandera (Montevideo) with various leaders of the multicolored coalition, he stated that “The vast majority of Uruguayans need this law to remain in force.” “Also the front runners. All Uruguayans need the validity of this law”, he stated.
Also, Manini Rios He asked the members of the Front “not to allow themselves to be used for political interests by voting against their personal interest”, on March 27. He warned them that if they vote Yes “they are going to be tied down” and “the world is going to be further and further away”.
He asked those who promote Yes to propose an “alternative” to the LUC. He recalled that citizens asked for “change” in 2019. And he criticized that “the only alternative” is to “go back” to “March 1, 2020.”
Gonzalo Martinez
The promoters of the campaign for the No to the repeal of articles of the LUC make their closing act in the Plaza de La Bandera, in Montevideo
According to the lobbyist leader, it would mean “re-tying the hands of the police and Justice.” “That is what they propose when they want to repeal those 33 articles that refer to security,” he claimed.
And he questioned: “What honest citizen of our country can bother those 33 articles? Those who want to repeal this law look at it from the point of view of the criminal. We look at it from the point of view of the majority of Uruguayans. Honest Uruguayans, those who can’t afford private security, who can’t fence or pay expensive alarms. The Uruguayans who depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of the police institute and justice according to the times we live in”, he pointed out.
The closing of the speech was focused on the day of the referendum: “March 27 is at stake much more than 135 articles of a law, a conception of the country is at stake, continue this course to straighten what they crooked for so many yearsor return to the starting point”, he harangued.
For her part, the Vice President of the Republic, Beatrice Argimon, referred to support for the police and the prison system. “We are not going to leave the police alone, they are the ones who take care of us,” she said. Before, she referred to the reduction of prison sentences. “I don’t care if a rapist studies or works in prison. May he serve the full sentence, ”he said..
Regarding the government program, he stated: “The president (Luis Lacalle Pou) fulfilled and we are going to continue fulfilling no matter how hard they put us on the wheel. We have the commitment and the strength intact that what we promised, we are going to fulfill”. He stated that since he assumed the government coalition, Uruguay had a drop in the poverty rate, in unemployment and in terms of unemployment insurance.
