Disneyland and María Elena Walsh, some of the references of the Uruguayan president used to respond to situations of political tension
marked by the irony and the analogies that always refer to popular thought and common sense, the president Luis Lacalle Pou he has a history of funny to teasing phrases that are useful when responding to situations that annoy him.
The most recent occurred yesterday, when he declared in front of the press about the changes, encouraged by his coalition, that affected the bill for social security by Town meeting and the Colorado party. To refer to the fact that the modifications do not affect the spirit of the project, the president used a somewhat singular phrase: “I don’t know if you heard that about ‘throw water to the milk’. We had a liter of milk. water, water and water, but it’s still milk.
A literary response
Last month, one of the hottest topics in the political arena was the tax cut, specifically the Personal Income Tax (IRPF) and in the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS). This situation had the opposition totally against it because they believed that it only benefited people with high incomes.
Faced with this, surprised by the situation that for the president seemed unusual, he responded with a literary reference from one of the most influential Argentine children’s authors. “It is the first time in history that there are people complaining that taxes are being lowered. Do you remember María Elena Walsh? It is the world upside down”
Creativity against Mercosur
The dilemma with mercosur and the president’s intentions to open the market in the region generate great creativity in his responses. The first was in 2021, where the summit – held virtually due to the pandemic – brought with it the discussion of the opening of the market where the president had a somewhat controversial adjective: “Obviously Mercosur weighs, obviously its production weighs on the international scene, what should not and cannot be is that it is a drag.”
Faced with this, even more creative, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez He responded with the same analogy. “We don’t want to be anyone’s burden, if we are a drag, let them take another shipbut ballast we don’t belong to anyone,” the Argentine president said.
Two years later, in January, during the VII Summit of Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the president’s creativity reappeared. This time against the Argentine Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, who tried to “younger brother” to Uruguay responding to Lacalle Pou’s demand to open Mercosur to other markets: “It looks like Disneyland” said the president and, faced with a request for expansion by journalists, he insisted again: “Disneyland.”
Source: Ambito
