"This Thursday [Aug. 8], the House of Representatives of Uruguay approved a new media law with a controversial article on the 'impartiality' of information that, as expected, was vetoed hours later by President Luis Lacalle Pou.
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Article 72 established 'the duty to provide citizens with information, analysis, opinions, comments and assessments in a complete, impartial, serious, rigorous, plural and balanced manner between and with respect to political actors.'
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Legislators from the government coalition led by Lacalle Pou agreed to vote in favor of the initiative promoted by the Executive with the expectation of a partial presidential veto, which the president applied in the afternoon. Since coming to power in 2020, the Lacalle Pou administration has promoted a new media law because it considered the previous one 'hyper-regulatory.'"
