The main presidential candidates of the Broad Front assured that the issue diverted the focus from the real problems.
The main presidential candidates for the broad front (FA), the mayor of Montevideo, Caroline Cosseand the mayor of cannelloni, Yamandu Orsicriticized the president Luis Lacalle Pou for the announcement and subsequent change of heart to reconvert the bronze eagle of the graff spee in the sculpture of a dove of peace.
Both Cosse and Orsi argued that the issue was irrelevant and diverted attention from the larger issues at hand. For Orsi, since the press conference, the whole matter related to the modification of the symbol of the Nazi Germany was “unnecessary“.
For his part, Cosse stated that on these issues “you can’t improvise” and “seriousness is very important”, since “you cannot play with the history of peoples”, and “the sensitivities of humanity that has suffered an unforgivable holocaust must be highly respected“.
“The excess of ads makes us fall into those mistakes” or “distract from the issues that should really matter to us“, said Orsi, who clarified that he was issuing a political opinion and not from his status as a history teacher.
In dialogue with the press, the Canarian mayor went on to say that there are already many accumulated issues that “are not transcendent”, and the focus of relevant issues such as the water problem is lost.
Orsi crossed Lacalle Pou for his absence in the act of the Girls of April
Likewise, the mayor of Canelones sent a message between the lines to Lacalle Pou due to his absence in the act of April Girlssaying that one of the current priorities is “ comply with the mandates of international human rights organizations“.
On this, he clarified that “it would have been very good for the president to be present at the act of the Legislative Palace”, and he refused to determine if the Graf Spee announcement was for the purpose of distraction: “I do not know if there was an intention, but it generated another noise more”, slipped.
Source: Ambito
