The president referred at a press conference to the criticism he received from the Broad Front after the announcement of the tax cut.
Within the framework of the official inauguration of the 2023 rice harvest organized by the Rice Growers Association (HERE) this Monday in the Department of RiveraPresident Luis Lacalle Pou accused the opposition of showing a “unconscious reaction” and “automaticagainst any measure taken by the government. The recent tax cut announced by the president in front of the Parliament received criticism from actors in the broad front and the Pit-Cnt.
According to Lacalle Pou, “at first they said that there was no need to cut taxes, and now they say that it is insufficient”, something that he described as “rare”, and invited his critics to “let them decide”. For the president behind the words of his detractors hides a “systematic” intention, like the saying that says “stick in case you row, and if you don’t row sticks“, since” we go to one side they hit us, we go to the other they hit us “, added the hierarch. Notwithstanding this, he remarked that the opposition “is within its right” to criticize the new tax measures.
Lacalle Pou said that today is “the first day of the educational transformation”
Asked about the strike decided by the Association of Secondary Education Teachers of Montevideo (GOODBYE) for today, coinciding with the beginning of the school year, the president showed himself “concerned” that on “the first day of the educational transformation, the measure that is taken is to harm those we have to protect the most”, on this, he indicated that it is “against the spirit of the educational system”.
In this line, he denied feeling “fear” that these union measures could affect the implementation of the brand new educational reform, and highlighted “the joy of the little ones, and the joy of the parents” for the start of classes, after having toured some schools and high schools, prior to the act of the ACA.
Source: Ambito
