He Senator Mario Bergara launched his candidacy for president within the broad front, considering himself “with the capacity” to lead the country and in the midst of criticism of the government headed by the President Luis Lacalle Pou, noting that his administration works “for a few.”
When announcing that it will be presented within the sector Call for Progressive Serenity (CSP), during an event at the Club Welcome in which they participated President of the FA, Fernando Pereira, and the Mayor of Montevideo and probable candidate Caroline Cosse, among other figures, bergara expressed: “I accept the challenge because I feel capable of leading the next government that will be of the Broad Front”.
In his speech, the former president of the Central Bank of Uruguay and former Minister of Economy and Finance pointed to Executive for considering that it works “for a few” and he questioned it promptly due to “the lack of medicines in public health, the delays in accessing specialists, the promised homes that do not appear and greater child poverty.”
bergara He dedicated a separate paragraph to security. “They do not resolve it as promised,” accused the brand new candidate and warned: “They do not even resolve what is most important to them, the fiscal deficit.”
Then, he focused on what he described as “a sequence of scandals and embarrassments”, among which he listed the concession of the port of Montevideo, Doubts about the delivery of the passport to the Uruguayan narco Sebastian Marset and the Astesian case, which he considered “pure corruption.”
Possible rivals within the Broad Front
bergara, who in 2019 was a pre-candidate for the presidency and obtained 9.28% of the total votes of the FA in the internal elections, it will not be an easy contest, since the two main opposition candidates appear on the horizon: the Mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi; and the Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, who could be added by his pair of Jump, Andres Lima.
In the case of orsi, already has the support of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) and the Vertiente Artiguista sector. While, Cosse He managed to enlist behind him the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, La Amplia, Casa Grande, the Party for the Victory of the People, the New Space, List 5005, the Partido Obrero Revolucionario and the Sumemos Movement.
Source: Ambito
