In Open Town Hall (CA) “we are all very upset”, sentenced Guido Manini Ríossenator and leader of the force that this afternoon will announce if he is leaving the government coalition after the president Luis Lacalle Pou forced the resignation of the Minister of Housing, Irene Moreira.
There is “deep malaise and I would say that it is unanimous,” said Manini Ríos in an interview with Radio Montecarlo and VTV. He also confirmed that the departure of the Cabildo Abierto from the coalition “is one of the options” that the Political Table of the party will analyze this afternoon. The decision will be announced at 7:00 p.m.
According to the senator, Moreira’s husband, “there were even calls and expressions of sharing our annoyance from people from other political camps.”
Moreira had to resign last Friday at the request of President Luis Lacalle Pou after it emerged that he granted discretionary housing to a Cabildo Abierto militant. The party tried to stop the departure with a press conference in which it demanded that the president review his position, but he ratified his decision.
“It has been, more than an arbitrariness, an injusticebecause a measure is taken against a minister who complied with the corresponding procedures,” Manini Ríos insisted on Monday.
For the senator, who is coming off weeks of tension with the Executive over the conditions he placed on his support for the social security reform, the resignation is a “account pass due to other situations that have nothing to do with what finally triggered” the request to leave his wife.
The main “trigger is the debt restructuring project” that presented Cabildo Abierto that caused “discomfort in some circles,” said the lobbyist leader.
If Cabildo Abierto leaves the ruling party, the coalition (National, Colorado, Independent and People’s parties) would lose 3 senators, 11 deputies and would have to name more than 50 positions in the Executive that are currently held by lobbyists.
Source: Ambito
