Montevideo, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) The Uruguayan Parliament is in recess from its ordinary sessions until March 1, but five ministers from President Yamandu Orsi's cabinet will appear before its Standing Committee.

The ministers summoned by the opposition are the heads of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MAGP), Alfredo Fratti; the Ministry of the Environment, Edgardo Ortuno; the Ministry of the Interior, Carlos Negro; and the Ministry of Education and Culture, Jose Carlos Mahia.

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Gabriel Oddone, will also be called, on a date to be determined.

Ortuno will have to answer questions about the renegotiation of water infrastructure projects with the consortium that was in charge of the Arazatí project, inherited from the previous administration and which the previous government declared closed.

Fratti is being questioned over an administrative act regarding the appointment of directors at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MAGP), noted Senator Bettiana Diaz, a member of the Broad Front coalition and head of the Permanent Commission.

In the case of the Minister of the Interior, “it is basically because of the crime statistics report published at the beginning of the year,” the legislator stated.

Mahiá’s summons raises concerns due to the intention of the former president of the National Public Education Administration, Colorado Party alternate legislator Robert Silva, to convene the institution’s authorities, whose decentralized nature “requires special majorities.”

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