After the referendum on 135 of the Urgent Consideration Law, the Electoral Court released the total primary data, without counting the 36,080 observed, the “No” to the repeal obtained 1,087,557 votes, to which must be added the 28,747 blank votes.
While the option for “Yes” to the repeal reached 1,065,001 votes, so the observed votes will not reverse the trend.
When the official results of the “No” victory were known, Penadés said that today the important thing is that “the 135 articles of the LUC were not repealed.”
Legitimate
In declarations to the “Informal Breakfasts” program, on Channel 12, the white legislator stated that the “No” supporters felt that it is a “great support for the government and the management that was carried out and those of the ‘Yes’ say that it is a very important vote that they have obtained, and it is all very legitimate”.
The nationalist parliamentarian remarked that people “ended up issuing themselves more because of their partisan political preference than because of the content of what they intended to repeal or not.”
“If it had been the ballot, President Lacalle Pou would have won the presidency of the Republic again,” he remarked.
two visions
On the other hand, Penadés ruled out that the country is divided. “We have to work so that it is not, and many actors from all over the world are not helping to make this happen. I think that in Uruguay there are two visions that have a very similar percentage of adherence and that end up being democratically lauded”, he opined.
In this sense, he said that for 15 years the vision of the Broad Front was “majority and nobody questioned it”, He added that at this time, “the majority vision is held by the coalition of political parties”, and added that he hopes that “nobody questions it ”.
“That is the functioning democratic mechanism, neither unanimity is good in democracy nor the excessive exercise of direct democracy guarantees that we live in a freer and more democratic society. A Republic is sustained by representative democracy,” he noted.
He added: “It neither finished anything nor started anything. The only peace of mind that this leaves us is that the government once again obtained the support of a majority of Uruguayans so that its Law, cataloged as the backbone, remains in force”.
He recognized that the LUC “is neither a magic wand that will solve all problems nor the mother of all catastrophes.”
