Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez has offered to resign as head of the country's Socialist Party after he went against party members by vetoing a bill that would have decriminalized abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a Socialist Party senator said last week, Reuters reports. Vazquez's offer to step down comes days after Uruguay's Socialist Party-controlled Senate denounced the president's veto and pledged to introduce another bill in next year's session. The senator, Monica Xavier, said that Vazquez's offer to resign as party leader creates a "painful decision, both for the president and for us," adding that party members would "do everything possible to keep him from leaving." |
December 9, 2008
Backlash Over Veto Of Bill To Decriminalize Abortion
