2022 Uruguayan Law of Urgent Consideration referendum explained

Referendum on the Urgent Consideration Law
Referendum appeal against 135 articles of Law No. 19,889 of 9 July 2020
Location:Uruguay
Yes:1078425
No:1108360
Outcome:Repeal rejected
Total:2298937
Electorate:2684131
Map:Resultados del referéndum sobre la Ley de Urgente Consideración por departamento.svg
Mapdivision:department
Flag Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg
Blank:29121
Previous Referendum:2019 Uruguayan constitutional referendum
Previous Year:2019

A referendum on the Urgent Consideration Law was held in Uruguay to ask the electorate if 135 articles of Law 19,889 (known as the "Urgent Consideration Law", "Urgency Law" or simply "LUC") – approved by the General Assembly in 2020 and considered as the main legislative initiative of the coalition government of President Luis Lacalle Pou — should be repealed.[1] [2] It was the result of a campaign promoted by various social and political actors such as the national trade union center PIT-CNT and the opposition party Broad Front. On 8 July 2021, almost 800,000 adhesions were delivered to the Electoral Court, exceeding 25% of the total number of registered voters who are constitutionally required to file a referendum appeal against a law.[3] [4]

Article 168 of the Uruguayan Constitution establishes that the Executive Branch may submit bills to the General Assembly declaring them "of urgent consideration". In this case, the House that receives the bill in the first instance has a period of 45 days to put it into consideration; if the term expires without the bill being rejected, it is considered approved in its original form and is communicated to the other House, which has a term of 30 days, and in case of approving a bill with modifications, it must re-enter the first House where it will have another 15 days for consideration. If after this period there is no express statement that demonstrates common agreement between the houses regarding the modifications, the bill is sent to the General Assembly, which will have 10 days to consider it.[5] With this constitutional mechanism, if a bill does not receive parliamentary approval within the stipulated periods, it automatically becomes law in the form in which it was sent by the Executive Power.[6]

Since the transition to democracy in 1985, only 13 bills were sent to Parliament with a declaration of "urgent consideration" (0.003% of the total bills sent by the Executive in that period), of which 9 were approved and 4 were rejected.[7] All governments applied the mechanism, except for the second terms of Julio María Sanguinetti and Tabaré Vázquez. However, in most of these cases urgent consideration was used for specific topics and only 3 bill fall into the category of “Omnibus bill”, based on the number of topics covered.

For the repeal to happen, the total of yes votes had to reach the absolute majority of valid votes, which included blank ones.[8] It thus failed, only 48,67 % of the total votes including blank ones being for the repeal.

Background

In 2018, the then presidential pre-candidate Luis Lacalle Pou of the National Party (PN) declared that his first measure in case of assuming the presidency in 2020 would be to send a bill to the Legislative Branch with the label of "urgent consideration", which would be the result of the negotiation between the members of a possible coalition government and whose content would include "everything that needs to be modified in the State", covering "education, security, housing, economy, administrative issues".[9] [10] The aim of the initiative would be "to take advantage of the first year of government to quickly apply the changes considered necessary".[11] Pablo Da Silveira, then Lacalle campaign programmatic coordinator and Minister of Education and Culture in the subsequent government, referred to the fact that with this "omnibus law" actions could be taken in a shortened period with respect to a budget law, which requires a process more extensive legislature.[12]

In March 2019, Lacalle Pou officially launched his campaign for the presidential primaries, which were held on 30 June of the same year.[13] He obtained 53.77 percent of the vote, defeating Juan Sartori, Jorge Larrañaga, Enrique Antía and Carlos Iafigliola.[14] Shortly after the victory, the nationalist candidate's campaign team began to draft the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), with Rodrigo Ferrés as the person in charge.[15] It was stated then that the bill would have between 300 and 500 articles and that its content would be based on the government program of the PN.[16] It was criticized from the Broad Front (FA), the Socialist Party (PS) affirmed that the mechanism would be unconstitutional since its use requires an identified pre-existing urgency and not one created "for political or ideological reasons or government priorities".[17]

Originally, the Lacalle Pou campaign team planned to finish the drafting of the LUC bill in October 2019, so that it would be presented prior to the first round of the general election, to be held on the 27th of that month.[18] However, this did not happen. In the election, the FA and the PN were the two most voted parties, with 39 and 28.6 percent of the vote, respectively. This result led to a second round between the candidates of each one to be held in November 2019, towards which all the main opposition parties lined up behind Lacalle Pou, forming the Coalición Multicolor.[19] [20] This alliance presented a common programmatic agreement known as "Commitment for the Country".[21] In the second round, Lacalle Pou was elected the 42nd president of Uruguay with 50.79 percent of the vote. The first draft of the LUC bill was released in January 2020, containing 457 articles divided into 10 chapters.[22] It underwent subsequent modifications as a result of the negotiation between the different members of the Coalición Multicolor and the final version was presented on 9 April, with 502 articles.[23] [24]

The final bill of the LUC entered Parliament on 23 April 2020.[25] Both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Representatives, special commissions made up of legislators from all political parties with parliamentary representation were formed for its analysis.[26] [27] Various individuals, public bodies, institutions and organizations were summoned by these commissions to learn their views on its content.[28] [29] After 25 articles were eliminated and more than 300 modified, the law was approved by the Senate in the first instance on 6 June 2020,[30] after which it entered the Chamber of Representatives where 32 changes were introduced and it was approved on 5 July.[31] [32] Finally, the upper house approved its final version on the 8th of the same month with only the votes of the ruling coalition, and the Executive Power promulgated it a day later.[33] [34] President Lacalle Pou described it as a "necessary, fair and popular" instrument.[35]

Initiative

Before the LUC bill was sent to the Legislative Branch and later during the parliamentary discussion, the PIT-CNT trade union center spoke out against its contents and the use of the constitutional remedy of "urgent consideration", considering it a mechanism undemocratic, considering that it "limited" the political and social debate.[36] [37] On 4 June 2020, the workers' union held a demonstration in front of the Legislative Palace, during which its secretary general, Marcelo Abdala, stated that the LUC was not meeting the needs of the population in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic " neither in form nor in content.[38] The ANCAP Federation (Fancap), a union of workers of the state fuel company ANCAP, was one of the first organizations to express itself in favor of filing a referendum against the LUC, considering it contrary to "the interests of the working class", according to its president Gerardo Rodríguez.[39] One of the main points of objection was the elimination of ANCAP's monopoly for the import, export and refining of crude oil and derivatives, an issue that generated discussion even within the ruling coalition itself,[40] and ended up being excluded from the bill during the parliamentary debate.[41] Instead, it was established that the price of fuels be defined by the Executive Power, with an adjustment in line with the import parity price with a periodicity not exceeding sixty days,[42] against which Fancap also manifested itself in disagreement.[43]

In May, the National Political Board of the Broad Front expressed its rejection of the "urgent consideration" mechanism and characterized the bill as "inopportune, unconstitutional and undemocratic".[44] During the parliamentary analysis, its legislators worked to incorporate various modifications, but they considered that the final version did not present substantial changes with respect to the original and, therefore, they maintained their negative vote on the bill,[45] despite voting in favor of almost 50% of the articles.[46]

On 9 September, the PIT-CNT officially announced for the first time that it would begin to analyze the possibility of developing a campaign with this objective, although at the moment it was not something definite.[47] The campaign to collect signatures to file a referendum was confirmed on 17 October by Intersocial,[48] a space made up of various social organizations in addition to the PIT-CNT, such as the Uruguayan Federation of Cooperatives for Mutual Savings (FUCVAM), the Intersocial Feminista and the Federation of University Students of Uruguay (FEUU).[49] [50] Two days later, on the 19th, the Broad Front decided to join the campaign,[51] a decision ratified on the 23rd by the Board.[52]

In Uruguay there are two ways to file a referendum appeal against a law before the Electoral Court.[53] In one of them, it requires reaching the adhesions of 25% of the total number of registered voters in a period corresponding to the first year after the promulgation of the law and directly leads to the holding of the referendum.[54] On the other hand, the other route requires reach at least 2% of the total number of registered voters eligible to vote within a period of 150 days after the enactment of the law and gives rise to the holding of an election with a non-compulsory vote known as a pre-referendum, in which if 25% vote affirmatively, a referendum must be held.[55] Depending on the time required to collect signatures in each case, the first form is popularly known as "the long one" and the second as "the short one".[56] At first, both the PIT-CNT and the Intersocial proposed to follow the "long way".[57] [58] On the Broad Front, this issue generated divisions, since the Communist Party (PC) and the Socialist Party supported the "long way", but other sectors such as the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP), the Uruguay Assembly (AU) and the Renovating Force (FR) preferred the "short way" given the risk implied by the high percentage of signatures required by the other mechanism.[59]

On 8 December 2020, it was formally reported that the FA had also opted for the "long way", in agreement with social organizations.[60] [61] Another of the most important issues was whether the referendum would seek a total or partial repeal of the LUC and, in the latter case, which articles. In early December, as a result of an agreement between the different actors, it was announced that they would seek to repeal 133 articles, referring to the issues of public security, the economy, public companies, the agricultural sector, labor relations, social security and housing.[62] In addition to the fact that among the articles to be repealed there were some that were voted by the FA in Parliament.[63]

On 14 December, made up of the PIT-CNT, the FA and the Intersocial, the National Pro-Referendum Commission (later the National Commission for the YES) was installed.[62] Four days later, the process formally began before the Electoral Court,[64] and on 29 December 2020, the campaign to collect signatures began to repeal 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration.[65]

Opinion polls

Date(s) conductedWill you vote to repeal the 135 articles of the LUC?UndecidedBlank/spoiltLeadSampleConducted by
YesNo
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2022
18–22 March43%43%10%4%N/A400UPC
17–22 March41%44%14%1%3%804Opción
11–20 March41%45%10%4%4%1,006Cifra
data-sort-value="2016-06-22" 11–14 March36%41%19%4%5%900Factum
data-sort-value="2016-06-22" 19 February – 2 March34%35%28%3%1%1,209Equipos
data-sort-value="2016-06-22" 17–26 February36%38%22%4%2%800Opción
data-sort-value="2016-06-23" 12–22 February32%41%22%5%9%900Factum
data-sort-value="2016-06-22" 10–27 February33%45%20%2%12%809Cifra
4–11 February47%42,6%10,4%N/A4,4%N/ANómade
data-sort-value="2016-06-22" 26 January – 1 February31%41%26%2%10%500Equipos
data-sort-value="2016-06-21" 14–24 January43%38%15%3%5%400UPC
2021
data-sort-value="2016-06-21" 9–27 December49,4%41,2%9,4%N/A8,2%N/ANómade
data-sort-value="2016-06-21" 25 November – 2 December33%46%18%3%13%500Equipos
data-sort-value="2016-06-19" 6–15 November39%51%10%12%900Factum
data-sort-value="2016-06-17" 29 October – 8 November37%39%19%5%2%800Opción
data-sort-value="2016-06-17" 28 October – 7 November41%48%11%N/A7%800Cifra
1–14 September45%50%5%5%900Factum
26 August – 3 September34%44%22%N/A10%707Cifra
9–16 August41%37%19%3%4%800Opción
22–31 July43%40%11%2%3%1,500Radar
24 June – 3 July34%43%23%N/A10%1,003Cifra
13–20 May40%38%22%N/A2%824Opción

Results

Only three departments voted in favor of the repeal : Canelones, Montevideo, and Paysandú. While those against the repeal represented only 50.02%, the repeal failed by a wider margin as 50% of the total votes including blank votes was needed, when only 48.67% of this total voted for the repeal. The initial count had the yes at 48.82%, the No at 49.86% and the blank votes at 1.32%. While the failure of the votes for repeal to reach 50% was enough to declare a result, the margin was thin enough for the total of unassessed votes (those from people voting in a different polling station than their registered ones, usually ignored if the margin is higher) to be higher, forcing them to be counted for the first time.

ChoiceVotes%
For1,078,42548.67
Against1,108,36050.02
Blank29,1211.31
Invalid votes[66] 83,0313.61
Total2,298,937100
Registered voters/turnout2,684,13185.65
Source: Corte Electoral

By department

DepartmentFor%Against%Blank%UnassessedInvalidTotalElectorate%
Artigas16,55632.2534,23266.685481.07111,16052,50763,12183.18
Canelones180,28053.24153,62145.364,7441.407714,549353,271409,77986.21
Cerro Largo23,42338.1137,25560.617911.29201,76563,25473,21086.40
Colonia38,87243.6249,16255.161,0871.22373,17392,331106,00187.10
Durazno17,52241.0624,59957.655521.29171,45244,14250,63687.18
Flores6,73235.0812,18363.482781.45664119,84022,60087.79
Florida21,35943.4927,16855.325821.1982,13551,25257,59788.98
Lavalleja15,23735.2027,35963.206941.6031,72645,01951,04088.20
Maldonado47,94540.3969,16158.261,6001.35275,188123,921142,27787.10
Montevideo468,26855.86358,77542.8011,2161.3421032,370870,8391,029,11384.62
Paysandú40,39150.9737,97547.928791.11182,50281,76595,28585.81
Río Negro17,23745.3920,25753.344801.2691,17839,16146,49084.24
Rivera18,52125.3853,71273.607471.02391,63074,64989,55583.36
Rocha22,49843.5728,30154.818391.6242,27953,92162,45486.34
Salto41,63347.6644,79051.289261.06222,02689,397104,04685.92
San José33,46646.4637,65852.289121.27252,81774,87884,02189.12
Soriano28,93146.9331,95851.847531.22152,23063,88775,29484.85
Tacuarembó25,51438.6939,46459.859651.46122,19668,15178,73286.56
Treinta y Tres14,04039.7820,73058.735281.50101,44436,75242,88085.71
Total1,078,42548.671,108,36050.0229,1211.3157082,4612,298,9372,684,13185.65
Source: Corte Electoral

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  49. Web site: 1 March 2021 . Crean la Intersocial, nuevo bloque que busca llevarle reclamos al gobierno – Información – 03/06/2020 – EL PAÍS Uruguay . 19 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210301171427/https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/sindicales/crean-intersocial-nuevo-bloque-busca-llevarle-reclamos-gobierno.html . 1 March 2021 . dead.
  50. Web site: Nueva plataforma Intersocial pone énfasis en crear "una renta transitoria de emergencia" . 19 March 2022 . Montevideo Portal . es.
  51. Web site: diaria . la . 17 October 2020 . Plenario del Frente Amplio decidió apoyar el referéndum contra la LUC . 19 March 2022 . la diaria . es-UY.
  52. Web site: 26 January 2021 . Frente Amplio resolvió acompañar referéndum contra LUC pero no definió el mecanismo . 19 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210126223116/https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/frente-amplio-resolvio-acompanar-referendum-contra-luc-pero-no-definio-el-mecanismo-2020101719330 . 26 January 2021 . dead.
  53. Web site: 29 April 2020 . Los caminos del Frente Amplio para realizar un referéndum contra la ley de urgencia . 26 March 2022 . 970 Universal . es.
  54. Web site: 9 April 2021 . Ley N° 17244 . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210409104521/https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes-originales/17244-2000 . 9 April 2021 . dead.
  55. Web site: 14 July 2021 . Ley N° 16017 . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714194606/https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/16017-1989 . 14 July 2021 . dead.
  56. Web site: 14 July 2021 . Pre referéndum sobre Ley Trans: Cómo se vota y por qué – Radiomundo En Perspectiva . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714194615/https://enperspectiva.uy/en-perspectiva-programa/informes-radio/pre-referendum-ley-trans-se-vota/ . 14 July 2021 . dead.
  57. Web site: 14 July 2021 . Crece ambiente para promover referéndum contra LUC Caras y Caretas . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714194609/https://www.carasycaretas.com.uy/promover-referendum-contra-luc/ . 14 July 2021 .
  58. Web site: 17 July 2021 . Referéndum contra LUC: Intersocial opta por juntar 700.000 firmas a julio de 2021 . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210717010645/http://radiouruguay.uy/referendum-contra-luc-intersocial-opta-por-juntar-700-000-firmas-a-julio-de-2021/ . 17 July 2021 . dead.
  59. Web site: ElPais . El Frente Amplio se inclina por el "camino largo" para derogar la LUC . 26 March 2022 . Diario EL PAIS Uruguay . 23 October 2020 . spanish.
  60. Web site: 17 July 2021 . FA resolvió avanzar por el "camino largo" para recolectar firmas contra la LUC la diaria Uruguay . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210717143308/https://ladiaria.com.uy/politica/articulo/2020/10/fa-resolvio-avanzar-por-el-camino-largo-para-recolectar-firmas-contra-la-luc/ . 17 July 2021 .
  61. Web site: 5 February 2021 . El momento ya llegó – PIT-CNT . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210205034146/https://www.pitcnt.uy/novedades/noticias/item/3877-el-momento-ya-llego . 5 February 2021 . dead.
  62. Web site: 14 July 2021 . Comisión Pro Referéndum detalló los 133 artículos que pretenderá derogar de la LUC: mirá . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714153315/https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Comision-Pro-Referendum-detallo-los-133-articulos-que-pretendera-derogar-de-la-LUC-mira-uc773142 . 14 July 2021 . dead.
  63. Web site: 17 July 2021 . Frente Amplio resolvió intentar derogar artículos de la LUC que votó en el Parlamento . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210717010548/https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/frente-amplio-resolvio-intentar-derogar-articulos-de-la-luc-que-voto-en-el-parlamento-2020124143357 . 17 July 2021 . dead.
  64. Web site: 1 March 2021 . Comenzó el camino legal en la Corte Electoral por referéndum de la LUC – PIT-CNT . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210301075234/https://www.pitcnt.uy/novedades/noticias/item/3893-corte-electoral-hoy-comenzo-formalmente-el-proceso-para-derogar-la-135-articulos-de-la-luc . 1 March 2021 . dead.
  65. Web site: 14 July 2021 . Se lanzó la campaña pro referéndum para derogar 135 artículos de la ley de urgencia . 26 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714153313/https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Se-lanzo-la-campana-pro-referendum-para-derogar-135-articulos-de-la-ley-de-urgencia-uc774299 . 14 July 2021 . dead.
  66. Including 570 invalid votes out of the previously unassessed votes