With a coalition still without a candidate, the general secretary of the Colorado Party remarked that the internal ones have not yet been defined.
The former leader of Colorado Party (PC)Pedro Bordaberry, was giving indications that he is within the possibilities of returning to politics, in response to this the general secretary of the PC and former president, Julio Maria Sanguinetti, He spoke about the current situation of the coalition and said that the party longs for the return of the politician within the framework of the definitions of pre-candidates for the 2024 elections.
Bordaberry, who currently works in the private sector as an advisor to the football club Montevideo City Torqueowned by the millionaire holding company City Football Group Limited (CFG), has remained out of politics since February 15, 2020, when he left his bench as a senator.
Since then, the expectations of the Colorado Party have always been placed on the one who Bordaberry returns to politics. Intentions that were confirmed with the statements of former President Sanguinetti, on the television program Arriba la Gente, who remarked that everyone longs for the return of the former leader of the Colorado Party.
On the other hand, Sanguinetti insisted on the importance of having a “competitive, fraternal but competitive internal” in the event that Bordaberry returns to the political scene and has to compete with other party figures. Among the possible figures mentioned by the former president are the senator and former Minister of the Environment, Adrian Pena and the president of the Central Board of Directors (Codicen) of the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP), Robert Silva.
Regarding the role of the Colorado Party within the coalition and in view of the next elections in 2024, Sanguinetti established that it has a role “determinant”. The general secretary explained that the National Party is strong, being led by President Luis Lacalle Pou, but that the PC will be key to winning the next elections. “The coalition is here to stay”remarked the former president.
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Bordaberry left a clue
Two weeks ago Bordaberry registered his sector again, Let’s go uruguaywithin the Colorado Party, which could interpreted as a sign of his return to political activity ahead of the 2024 national elections.
In the statement sent to the Colorado Party, which was signed by Bordaberry himself, but also by former Vice Chancellor Carolina Ache, the current undersecretary for industry Walter Verry, among other colorado members, authorization was requested to use the party motto, and the sub-mottos “Vamos Batllistas”; “Let’s go Colorados”; and “Let’s go Uruguay”.
In dialogue with Underlined, a Colorado leader assured that this movement “does not imply”, explicitly, “that Bordaberry has decided to be a candidate.” However, for these hours, It would “processing the decision to stand or not in the next elections“. The announcement would be made this month..
Source: Ambito
