In a meeting with the white mayors, the President asked to consider this option to get to the municipal elections with greater opportunities.
President Luis Lacalle Pou received mayors of National Party in the residence of Anchorena, Tacuarembó, where they exchanged ideas on the political situation of Uruguay and shared a roast lamb.
With just over a year to go before the elections, the president knows that the fight for territory it will also be important at the polls, and that no one can put up that fight more than the department heads. For this reason, and as he had promised a long time ago, he brought together the white mayors and, in a camaraderie barbecue without an agenda, asked them to work so that the government’s policies reach the territory and, above all, the citizens.
Among other issues on the table, there were also solidarity wages, the Advance Plan on settlements and coordination with two preponderant ministries for departmental dynamics such as Social development and Living place.
A special request for the elections
Beyond the various points discussed during the meeting, Lacalle Pou took the opportunity to convey a proposal: the possibility of making departmental coalitions in the municipal elections for compete against the Broad Front in 2025 with greater chances of success, at the request of the Colorado party.
The request against the whites was not by chance: the nationalists know that, in some departments in particular, joining forces with the partners they have at the national level can benefit them to compete with the Broad Front. The clearest cases are those of rock —where a coalition operated under the nationalist motto in 2020— and the departments of the west coast: Leap, where the leftist coalition now governs, paysandu and Black river, where the whites managed to recover the municipal seat in 2020.
In other departments, like long hill —where the nationalists achieved more than 73% of the votes in 2020—, the idea of a coalition seems more distant.
But Lacalle Pou not only spoke of elections at the departmental level but also referred to the national ones. With the presence of the Secretary of Presidency and probable candidate for the National Party, Alvaro Delgado, the president told the mayors that he will have no preferences within his party.
Source: Ambito
