Government Enters Indication to Re-Enact Mandatory Vote with Reduced Fine: It Proposes Amount of Between $34 Thousand and $103 Thousand
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The amount of the fines and the regulation of the foreign vote confronted the ruling party and the opposition two months after the national elections, to the point of almost generating a "blockage" in Congress. Experts consulted by Sputnik opined on the electoral calculations behind this discussion and how greater electoral participation can influence.
After approving the sanction for those who do not vote, he said that “it looks very unserious that we are nine weeks from the election amending rules.” In conversation with Now is When, the UDI deputy and president of the Constitutional Commission, Jorge Alessandri, referred to the failed negotiation of the project that imposes penalties in fines for those who do not comply with the mandatory vote and that was answered in the Senate. On this, Al…
The government advanced this Tuesday with two important legislative proposals that seek to modify key aspects of the electoral system: on the one hand, to reinstate mandatory voting with lower economic sanctions; on the other hand, to establish greater restrictions for foreigners to vote in elections. Fine for not voting: New proposal with reduced sanctions During the session of the Senate Government Committee, the executive entered an indicatio…
It should be recalled that the draft, which is in the second phase, arrived at the Senate without fines, which were answered by means of instructions. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Commission initiated the study of the constitutional reform in the area of the suffrage of foreigners. The Government, Decentralization and Regionalization Commission, chaired by Senator Paulina Vodanovic, sent to Sala the draft, in second constitutional process, amen…
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