Weekly Report - 9 March 2004
URUGUAY: EP-FA to retain state monopolies
The leftist Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio (EP-FA), favourite to win the October presidential elections, has an eclectic approach to `reform'. It intends to overhaul the tax and pension systems, but will retain state monopolies in electricity, water supply, telephony and oil. It will also place its policy emphasis on production, not on `trying to turn Uruguay into a financial market.'
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