The presidential candidate of National Party (PN) and leader of the Republican Coalition, Álvaro Delgado, He voted at the Banco República Club after visiting his parents: “We ran the best campaign, the one that Uruguayans deserved.”
Unlike what happened in the October general elections, Slim He changed the route prior to voting in circuit 473, and was able to cast his vote more quickly than in the first round; although he was also received by a large number of people who accompanied him at the voting center. “It is a time to celebrate,” he assured, and considered that the coming political scenario will be an “opportunity” to generate agreements: “I am not going to be the president of the majority, I want to be the president of the agreements and I am going to give all the signals to seek all agreements.”
“People are committing to choosing who is going to govern them, now it is no longer between parties, but rather who is going to run the country, with what projects, in the next five years,” he considered, and insisted that he led the best Campaign possible: “because the path that one chooses to win is the one that legitimizes you to govern for everyone, and starting tomorrow I want to be the president of all Uruguayans, those who voted for me and those who did not.”
Anyway, Slim He indicated that he would have liked a debate “more interactive”, as well as more instances of debate to show “the team, the program and the credibility to give people confidence.” “Continuity and direction” were the certainties that, he assured, he wants to give to the people.
“If I win, tomorrow I plan to invite the candidate to have some mates.” (Yamandu) Orsi, and surely go visit the President of the Republic,” he added.
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Delgado was also consulted about what the relationship of his eventual government would be like with Venezuela, which is currently going through a deep political crisis about which Uruguay has warned on numerous occasions. In that sense, the white candidate assured that he will invite the opposition leaders of that country to his inauguration, if he wins this Sunday, Edmundo González Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado. He also insisted that “the elections were fraudulent” and that in the Bolivarian nation there is “a dictatorship.”
“On January 10, yes (Nicolas) Maduro does not hand over power, it will be confirmed that he is a de facto president,” he added.
About Argentina, Meanwhile, he stated that “there is an opportunity” with the neighboring country and that he has a “good relationship” with Javier Milei; which “predicts that we can continue working, deepening the relationship and improving Mercosur.”
Finally, regarding the role that may have Luis Lacalle Pou In his eventual government, he maintained that it will be the president’s decision, although he would not offer him a position in the Executive Branch because “he is not thinking about it.” Your banking in Senate, meanwhile, “it is a decision that he is going to make and it is personal.” Anyway, Slim He assured that the president will have “a dual role as a friend of many years, as a political companion and as an advisor.”
Source: Ambito
