The Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado, warned about the risks of a turn towards populist practices in the event that the Broad Front (FA) the 2024 elections, during his participation in a liberal international forum in the city of Buenos Aires.
Delgado, favorite according to opinion polls to represent the National Party In the next elections, he was part of the panel on “How to combat the populism cultural and strengthen a narrative of freedom”, within the framework of the II meeting of the Freedom and Democracy groupled by former Argentine presidents, Mauricio Macriand Chilean, Sebastian Piñera.
“I do not believe in the Uruguayan rift even though some with radical speeches have that political intention,” he assured and clarified, before an audience in which there were figures from the liberal and conservative Hispanic American spectrum such as José María Aznar, Vincent Fox and Guillermo Lassowhat in Uruguay “The conditions are not in place to create that crack that occurs in other countries,” in clear reference to Argentina.
Delgado clarified, however, that “we are not vaccinated against the populism cultural”. “We have many challenges. In Uruguay begins to appear culture of marginality as a spearhead element to generate that fertile field for other types of things,” he considered.
To counteract this trend, the Secretary of the Presidency, who in his speech cited on several occasions to Luis Lacalle Pou, proposed to the liberals to “do their homework.” “We have to do pedagogical work. Be efficient in public policies because populism It is opportunistic and plays with people’s hopes and creates clientelistic dependency. To the populism “You beat him with the truth,” he said.
Alvaro Delgado proposed to implement the concept of “solidarity liberalism”, something that he considered essential so that the left does not take over social sensitivity. “It is a big part of the concept of what is coming. Law, pluralism and distribution”, he listed. “The State cannot replace the effort, but it can promote the conditions,” he stressed.
He used the end of his presentation to give an international twist to his eventual candidacy for the Presidency, by explicitly referring to the confrontation between the coalition and the Frente Amplio in next year’s elections.
“There will be a confrontation, beyond models or paths, about freedom as well. “They are going to be on the table to generate certainties or uncertainties,” she said and assured that it is a “very atypical election where Uruguay decides to advance to the future or go back to the worst Frente Amplio, the most radical, which some of the unions”.
“To stop the populism There is no choice but to win elections and for that we are going to be part of a path because we need the Uruguay continue the path that Lacalle Pou started,” he stressed.
Source: Ambito
