The Senate Chamber approved this Tuesday the constitutional reform project that restores the compulsory nature of voting in popular elections. With its approval, the Corporation dispatched the initiative to the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies.
The Senate approved the project with 41 votes in favor and one against, from the independent senator Fabiola Campillai.
The initiative establishes the obligatory nature of voting in all elections and plebiscites, except in primary elections, and establishes that a constitutional organic law will establish the fines or sanctions that will be applied, the voters that will be exempt from them and the procedure for their determination, among other things.
The Upper House modified different aspects of the project. Therefore, the Chamber of Deputies must vote on these changes. In case of rejecting them, a mixed commission must resolve the differences between both instances.
The initiative arises from two consolidated motions, among whose authors are the current FRVS senators Alejandra Sepulveda Y Esteban Velasquez.
