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Anti-Expiry Campaign Nears End
Montevideo - By collecting 231 signatures
against the Expiry Law so far, Uruguayan
political and social organizations started
on Sunday the countdown to the campaign to
hold a referendum on the issue.
The General Assembly, the top legislative
body, should convene a referendum on it if
promoters of the initiative certify 251,847
signatures (10 percent of the electoral
roll) by April 25.
In order to complete collection of the
nearly 20,000 signatures needed, the
National Coordinating Committee for the
Abolition of the Expiry Law is waging a
final offensive countrywide with the target
to collect 200,000 signatures by that date.
Under heavy rain yesterday, activists
managed to collect hundreds of signatures,
including those by members of the Uruguayan
beach soccer team who were taking part in
qualifying games for the World Championship.
The operation is expected to be repeated
today, member of the Coordinating Committee
Carlos Coitino told La Republica daily.
Decreed in 1986 with support of traditional
parties and opposed by currently ruling
Frente Amplio (Broad Front) party, the
Expiry Law sanctioned impunity by exempting
from punishment police and military
personnel responsible for human rights
violations committed under dictatorship
(1973-1985).
If the required number of signatures is
certified, the referendum is scheduled to be
held with general elections on October 25.
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