Andres Ojeda He did not achieve his first objective, to enter the runoff, but he managed to form a sector within the Colorado Party (PC) with representation in the Senate that would allow him to consolidate a leadership position in the traditional political force.
Since the emergence of Pedro Bordaberry In the elections as the head of list 10 for the Senate, the gazes of the different actors of that party rested on how much the weight of the red sectors would be reduced and to what extent the lawyer, someone who would be a limit to the growth of the figure, would be a limit. The party establishment did not assimilate until its resounding victory in the June 30 internal elections.
Immediately behind Bordaberry were the Colorados who competed internally and lost, the former Minister of Tourism Tabare Viera and the former president of Antel Gabriel Gurmendezand the sector Citizenswhich meant the explicit support of the ministers of the current government Fernando Mattos (Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing) and Robert Bouvier (Atmosphere).
During the course of the electoral campaign, there were several counterpoints between Bordaberry and Ojeda that, although they did not cross directly, made it clear that the harmony between the two was not total.
The final results of the national scrutiny of the Electoral Court for the Senate – still missing the final one in each department – confirmed that list 10 of Let’s go Uruguayheaded by the traditional Colorado leader, was the PC’s most voted, winning two seats, that of Bordaberry and Viera.
Bindfrom the emerging Ojeda, came second, but achieving the same number of seats in the Senate, which the former presidential candidate will occupy – that is if he does not occupy a ministry in an eventual coalition government – and Gustavo Zubiawho got off the red inmate to support the lawyer.
“Andrés Ojeda has to build political capital from the Senate,” said the master in Public Policy and political analyst. Mauro Houseto Scope before the election, when analyzing his immediate political future and how to consolidate it.
He Colorado Party will have a fifth seat in the Senate, that of Robert Silvaof Colorado Commitment and who completed the presidential binomial in the general elections by finishing second in the internal elections.
Although the relationship with Ojeda during the campaign flowed, their unity was merely protocol, that is, it occurred because strategically the PC decided to compete with the first and second of the internal team.
Silva’s sector does not feel entirely comfortable with Bordaberry either. His political return earned him a loss of votes and a loss of parliamentary weight. “Pedro liquidated us,” he told Scope a deputy from that sector on the eve of the elections.
Source: Ambito
