The party’s leader, Guido Manini Ríos, read a statement in which he made known the discomfort of his political force with Lacalle Pou.
Without any type of self-criticism for the actions of the ex-minister of living place, Irene Moreirathe leader and senator of Town meeting (AC), Guido Manini Riosannounced at a press conference that the political table of his party, meeting in an extraordinary way, decided by majority to continue being part of the government coalition, “in a new effort to sustain the commitment to the country“.
Reading a joint communiqué, Manini Ríos hinted at the anger that exists within his political force with the actions of the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou. For CA the request for the resignation of the head of state to Moreira “it was wrong“.
In turn, he stated that in the past, and “in order not to be hostile” with the partner parties of the Multicolor CoalitionAC”gave his vote of confidence to the authorities in the most diverse circumstances“, and “He has shown plenty of his loyalty“, without this being “fully valued” by the other parties, or the president himself.
For Manini Ríos, “the events of recent times show that the presidential model leads to disagreement” between parties, since all previous coalitions in the country had been characterized “by collective decision-making”.
Despite the confirmation of continuity, Manini Ríos boasted of the almost 270,000 voters who accompanied CA in the last general elections of 2019, in a message that seeks to highlight the weight and importance of their party in Parliament for the governance of the current administration.
In turn, he commented that the Executive power is far from the concerns of the people, and that from their political space they watch over the general interest, and “not for that of some economic groups“. As Manini Ríos explained, this position has awakened “the greater violence of some sectors that have not saved any qualifier“against CA.
For Cabildo Abierto, the removal of Moreira from his position has a “revanchist spirit”
Manini Ríos went further and indicated that Moreira’s resignation request had a “revengeful mood” of Lacalle Pou towards his party for not having supported in the first instance the vote on the social security reform as it was originally proposed.
The ex-soldier stated that the Executive was passive in the face of serious cases and scandals that in recent times have involved high levels of governmentsuch as the Astesiano case, or the delivery of a Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset.
To finish, the CA leader explained that they will now make a “stopped tracking” of the state of the public security situation throughout the country, and will be given “a run themselves“to seek a legislative solution”urgent“to deal with the project of natural person debt restructuring lawotherwise they will try to go by way of a plebiscite.
Source: Ambito
