Senator Guido Manini Ríos assured that the concession of the port to the Belgian company caused great discomfort within his party.
The senator and leader of Town meeting (AC), Guido Manini Riostold the press that the agreement between the government for the concession of the port and the Belgian company Katoen Natie was “surely the biggest toad” he had to “swallow” his party in order to maintain the stability of the Multicolor Coalition and give governance to Executive power.
According to Manini Ríos, the main discontent in his party arose from the fact that the lobbyist and vice president of the port of Montevideo, Daniel Laureiro“he found out about the deal” when the president Luis Lacalle Pou “announces it in the General Assembly”. However, the retired general remarked that “in these types of issues we always seek to move forward” to “look at the mountain and not lose sight of it by looking at the tree.”
For the senator, the current government alliance continues to be “the necessary tool to be able to reach people’s solutions”, although he reflected that sometimes in the path of power “there are things that are done that we do not like so much”, but that from his political strength they are “timers” so that “blood does not reach the river”.
Manini Ríos’s statements come within the framework of a growing tension between the National Party and Cabildo Abierto due to the discussion around the social security reform.
Guillermo Domenech: “Cabildo Abierto has had to swallow the toad many times”
The senator of AC, Guillermo Domenechdeclared before the press that his party “the toad has swallowed many times” with the purpose of “assure stability to the Executive Power”. The lobbying legislator ignited the internal coalition by declaring that people perceive that the National Party He is the one in power, and not the other partners in the government.
According to Domenech, the country “He does not deserve the anxiety of a government that cannot govern” Therefore, CA will act “responsibly”, since “because the country and the people are above the party”, and to understand the legislator, “patriotism cannot be just a word”. The senator denied that CA is leaving the ruling coalition for the time being, but it sowed doubts for the future.
Source: Ambito
