The Commission for the Yes to the repeal of 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC) forwarded to the president Luis Lacalle Pou What did the national chain decide to do? next Tuesday, March 22, at 8:00 p.m.whose duration will not be more than seven minutes, consists of the letter released this Thursday.
In the letter, signed by the leaders Rafael Michelini and José Olivera, it is pointed out about “the need to have certainties, day, hour and duration of the chain”. In addition, he warns about “the impossibility of knowing today if the sponsors of the No” will use the tool.
The commission informed the president Lacalle Pou and the director general of the Secretariat, Nicolás Martinelli, that it will deliver the file within the same day of its issuance. To do this, he asked the Presidency to inform him “where and to whom” the material will be delivered for broadcast.
Broadcasts will be broadcast on prime time and it will be at the discretion of each sector, to do them live or deferred.
At the beginning of last February, the government had agreed to grant chains to both campaigns so that they can thus make their arguments known and expand the democratic debate about the electoral instance that will be held on March 27.
Unlike other instances, in which the national network was denied, the next referendum was defined as an issue of high public interest that requires extensive debate, according to what they consider in the Executive Power.
The President of the Republic said that “surely” he will be the one to speak in defense of the 135 articles of the law in question.
“That’s what they say”, responded Lacalle Pou enigmatically, in response to the query made in an interview he gave on March 3 to Telemundo (channel 12). However, this week he handled the possibility of not using that resource, but making a Press conference. These declarations generated a quick controversy between the coordinators and militants of the Sí, who complained about a possible inequality in the conditions.
