The ex-president Jose “Pepe” Mujica participated in a campaign event of the Paraguayan opposition, the National Concertation coalition, and showed their support for the candidate Ephraim Alegrefrom the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, who will be a candidate for the third time and this time will face the official Santiago Peña, and 11 other candidates who appear on the ballot.
“You have to fight for society because our life passes, but the people remain. And the people are the children that are in the bowels of our beloved women. Those who are going to come after us,” said Mujica from a theater full of young supporters of the presidential candidate in the town of Villa Elisa, a neighbor of Santiago.
The ex-president and the Paraguayan opposition candidate appeared on a stage more than two hours after what was scheduled at an electoral campaign event, organized by the opposition alliance National Agreement.
Mujica, who held a meeting with Alegre in Uruguay last November, gave a speech lasting almost an hour in which he stressed the importance of unity to “achieve” changes.
“We have to learn to care for unity. Unity must be respected as a supreme value”, he added. He added that the people must learn to tolerate each other in a world that is not perfect. “We have to learn that you don’t win people over by insulting,” he said.
Mujica recalled his beginnings as a militant
The ex-governor recalled his beginnings as political militant at age 14in a country where, he said, the left was “very traditional.”
“They even treated her well from the right, because she was like a little animal that was there and added a bit of folklore to the matter,” she commented. Finally, the leftist leader reflected with the people about youth. “What do we come to life for? To make pure sacrifices?” he asked.
“When you have children you need time to cultivate affection, but when you are old you need time for melancholy, nostalgia and love,” he said. in his speech did not speak about the electoral campaign of the Paraguayan opposition.
In the general elections on April 30, some 4.8 million Paraguayans are summoned to the polls to vote for the president, vice president, deputies, senators, governors and members of the departmental boards.
Source: Ambito
