The mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, will accept his pre-candidacy for the presidency of Uruguay for him Wide Front in November, at an event at Prado Rose Gardenprior to the plenary session in which the highest governing body of the left coalition will define who will be the referents to appear in the June 2024 elections, which must then be approved by special majorities in the Congress from December.
There is just a little more than a year left until Uruguay elect a new president and the current opposition is already working on strong alternatives that will increase the chances of recovering the government after five years of the Multicolor Coalition. In that sense, one of the best positioned pre-candidacies is that of the mayor of Cannelloni, Yamandú Orsi, who has already announced that he will leave his place as communal chief in 2024 to dedicate himself to the campaign. On the other hand, Cosse is the other option with the greatest possibilities, and although everyone already assumes that the capital’s mayor will compete in the internal frontamplistas, She has not yet officially accepted being a pre-candidate.
This will be done on November 11, according to El Observador, at an event at the Rosedal del Prado, and it will be the first public confirmation of Carolina Cosse after receiving the support of Communist Party, he New Space, he Socialist Party, he People’s Victory Party, Big house and Let’s add, among other groups, to compete for first place on the left coalition list.
The scenario chosen for confirmation is an area that Montevideo Municipality has worked to improve in recent months, with new lighting, the installation of bars and the restoration of the Buschental Bridge, among other interventions. The objective is to make evident the management of recent years.
Meanwhile, Cosse focuses her efforts on forming a command with the leaders of the sectors that officially support her for her candidacy. This would also happen at the end of October, once the mayor returns from her trip to Washington and Türkiye, where you will participate in the Bloomberg CityLab and in the Council of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)respectively.
In this group they will participate Juan Castillo (Communist Party), Rafael Michelini (New Space), Gonzalo Civila (Socialist Party), Martin Briano (Big House), and Pablo Ferreri (independent), among others.
Upon returning from his official mission, Cosse will also speak publicly on another issue on which his position is pending: the plebiscite against the social security reform promoted by the PIT-CNT.
Orsi will leave the Mayor’s office in 2024
For his part, Orsi, who for now is a favorite in the polls and has already confirmed that he will seek to be the presidential candidate for the Broad Front, announced that he will leave his position at the beginning of 2024 to devote himself fully to the electoral campaign, of which he is finalizing the details.
Although he said he did not have an exact date to step aside in the Municipality of Canelones, he assured that it will be days after the Congress of the Broad Front, in December, in which the pre-candidacies will be approved. “I imagine that next year we will no longer be there,” said Orsi, who added that “it will be January or February“the moment in which he presents his resignation from the position he currently holds.
“The idea that I am here (in the mayor’s office) until December to go to that other responsibility (the electoral campaign), and then we will see how the story continues,” he pointed out in this regard.
Orsi indicated that in the remainder of his departmental administration he will focus on the execution of pending tasks at the level of architecture, infrastructure and social works.
Source: Ambito
