The Commission clarifies that voting blank (placing any object in the electoral envelope or not placing anything), is voting in favor of maintaining the 135 articles of the LUC.
The 135 articles are always at the service of the powerful. “They installed the express eviction. Now, if they want to evict you from your home, even if you are a good payer, they can do it in 30 days. And if you are not a good payer or you are three days late in payment, they leave you on the street in six days”.
homicides grow
He also denounces that the number of homicides is constantly growing according to data from the Prosecutor’s Office. “Deaths in prisons increased by 75% in 2021 compared to 2019, insecurity has grown again, despite the fact that these 135 articles have been in force for 18 months.”
“While a woman, who committed a crime for the first time trying to bring 56 grams of marijuana into COMCAR, was sentenced to four years in prison, a drug trafficker, who lives in the private neighborhood of La Tahona, was sentenced to 420 kilos of base paste for 20 months of house arrest. Is that justice, is that balance?” compares the Commission.
The promoters of the referendum assure that the number of prisoners increased, but there were no prosecutions for money laundering, “typical of drug traffickers and corrupt”, because now you can pay up to 100 thousand dollars in cash. “Do you handle that amount of cash? This is the gateway for laundering, lack of control and evasion”.
Fuel price increases
On the other hand, the statement indicates that the price of fuels increased since March 20, 2020: Super gasoline 28.13%, Premium gasoline 26.98%, diesel 26.89% and supergas on 19, 74% and then they began to “fiddle with the same Law they voted for, while waiting for the referendum, without the slightest transparency, based on pure political criteria.”
The Commission for the “Yes” assures that the increase that they are going to impose as of March 27 will be terrifying. “What do 135 articles have to do with the management and transparency of public companies?”
“There are no rules throughout the LUC to improve the fight against corruption, to combat waste in the State at all levels. Not an article that prevents the port of Montevideo from being handed over for 60 years to a foreign company with a terrible record in the management of the Cuenca del Plata Terminal for 20 years”, they denounce.
Wild West
On the other hand, it is denounced that the contested articles have a negative influence on freedom “why do they want to transform the country into the far west, where the “law” of justice by their own hand prevails?”
What they really want is for the State to wash its hands of one of its main responsibilities: security. “Legitimate defense is already included in our legislation, guarantees are reduced to protect the supreme good that is life, and protection of the right to property over the right to life is increased.”
It is also stated that “there will be freedom for the most powerful, in all social relationships, in the payment of wages, in abusive hiring, in the increase of ‘informality’ and once again, they wash the hands of the State.”
They question that there will be “freedom to pay 100 thousand dollars in cash, but not for workers to access the financial system.”
In addition, “it cuts the freedoms to defend wages, pensions and labor rights, gives all power to the powerful and expands repression.”
Public enterprises
“Since in 1992 they overwhelmingly lost a referendum (78% to 22%), and they couldn’t sell ANTEL, now they do it in pieces and also with ANCAP. We do not want to make the owners of Movistar and Claro richer, we want the money of the Uruguayans to be reinvested in placing us at the forefront of technology, in building educational and health centers and in State investments”, he expresses.
The promoters of the referendum assure that education is of great concern, and assure that it is impossible to carry out a serious reform without the teachers. “Everything remains in the hands of politicians, the obligation of parents or guardians to register and observe the attendance and learning of children and adolescents in a school is eliminated, and it is replaced by “contribute to its fulfillment”.
The compulsory nature of upper secondary education, the extension of pedagogical time and the curricular activity for primary and lower secondary education students are also eliminated. “A setback in the universalization of education”.
The Commission for the referendum indicates that it is necessary to join efforts to face the great national problems, employment and underemployment, salaries, retirement and pensions that are increasingly reduced, changes in education and in the retirement system. Where the State does not go back again and washes its hands.
It is expressed that Uruguay needs new development projects, with levels of protection of the environment and with a long-term vision of the country.
The 135 disastrous articles of the LUC divide Uruguayans, impose a policy that denies the best of our tradition of political construction.
