The left-wing coalition is seeking to revive the 1994 Progressive Meeting under a new, broader “umbrella” that would allow them to gather more votes in 2024.
He Broad Front (FA) approaches the Plenary of July 15 with clear ideas regarding their electoral strategyfacing the 2024 elections, with the aim of recovering the government in Uruguay. With the candidacies practically closed, the last pending task is to consolidate a broader political space that allows them to compete against the Multicolored Coalition, that, until now, would go for re-election.
New Majority for Uruguay. That would be the name under which the Broad Front will seek to reissue a possible Progressive Meeting like the one that generated tabare vazquez in 1994, and which is proposed as the main strategy to gather an electoral floor that allows us to dream again of a Frente Amplio government after the multicolored years. Under this new “umbrella”, the coalition would open the doors to leaders of other partiesaccording to the draft presented by the president of the front, Fernando Pereira, to the leadership
The proposal already has the support of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP)the sector of the former president Jose Mujica, who has the mayor of Cannelloni, Yamandu Orsi, as a confirmed pre-candidate to compete for the presidency —and he is, according to the polls, the one with the highest voting intentions to date. The idea is also supported by sectors of the Seregnista-Progressive Call —which nucleates Mario Bergara and Astorism, among others—and the new space of Raphael Michelini.
For the moment, the Socialist Party and the front bases have been more critical of the drafting of the document, while the communist party He expressed some doubts about it. However, the general consensus would be given, so the FA would launch this new extended space in its Plenary on July 15.
What does the draft of the New Majority for Uruguay say?
The draft begins by pointing out the particular context that the country is going through at a political and socioeconomic level, within the framework of a “neoliberal restoration at the hands of Herrerismo and its coalition partners” which calls “the progressive forces to renew their votes to forge a country that resumes the path towards development with social justice.”
Regarding the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, the document presented by Pereira to the frontist leadership indicates that he country at the service of minorities, and that “in a period where there was economic growth there was also a greater concentration of wealth.” This makes it necessary to “broaden the gaze again”. In this sense, the draft calls “to once again form a new majority that can focus on the great problems of the countryto achieve once and for all the transformation of Uruguay”.
In this way, the FA proposes “to establish a programmatic and electoral agreement that encompasses the different political forces that join” the project, on the condition that “they agree on the same perspective on the country’s problems and stand as an alternative for progressive change.” The alliance “must transcend beyond the electoral act”clarifies the text discussed in the executive Secretary and in a specific commission on the subject —and that in the next few days will go down to the bases to continue with the debate process—: “We cannot make the mistake of creating a structure summoning people from different sectors outside the FA, and then exhaust the alliance when the electoral act is fulfilled”, they warn.
For the current opposition, moreover, the agreement “should be projected beyond the national level, reaching the departmental and municipal” to be able to delve into the problems and local realities.
“For the electoral legal presentation, the best way to reflect this plurality will be sought, in any case expressing itself to said conjunction of forces with its own denomination that will be the ‘New Majority for Uruguay’passing the common candidates to become candidates of the aforementioned alliance”, proposes the left-wing coalition.
Source: Ambito
