The mayor of cannelloni and main candidate for the presidency of Uruguay for him Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, He maintained that it was “the government coalition itself” that raised doubts about the president’s actions. Luis Lacalle Pou in the events that unleashed the Marset scandal and the political crisis; in response to criticism from the ruling party for the Broad Front approach in this regard. For the leader of Popular Participation Movement (MPP)the president “prioritizes personal loyalty to his friends.”
For Orsi, the big problem of Lacalle Pou Lately it has been their overconfidence in those around them; a characteristic for which “he was wrong several times” and, now, also puts him under the magnifying glass of justice in the scandal based on the intention to hide and eliminate evidence regarding the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker. Sebastian Marset.
“What seems to me to be happening is that this government and the president himself move with a loyalty scheme“, said Orsi in statements to the program Desayunos Informales, and questioned: when you are a leader, “loyalty is first with the person who voted for you and fundamentally with the entire people, not with your friends.”
As an example, the Broad Front candidate recalled not only the recent political crisis in which the president defended all the former members of the Executive power —despite accepting their corresponding resignations—; but also the cases of the former senator of the Gustavo Penadés National Party and his former security chief Alejandro Astesiano, whom the head of state defended in the first instance.
“Loyalty cannot be in some cases bordering on what is omerta”, said the mayor.
Orsi He also questioned the government for “holding a meeting in the garage no less than in the Executive Tower”, in reference to the meeting in which they participated Roberto Lafluf, Guillermo Maciel and Carolina Ache and in which Lacalle Pou He acknowledged having been there “less than two minutes” because he went “to say hello”—although he also admitted that this meeting took place by his order.
In any case, the leader of the Frente Amplio lowered the tone that even members of the Multicolor Coalition They put forward and maintained that he is “sure” that the president “has no direct participation.” Although he pointed out that it was the government itself that raised these doubts.
Lacalle Pou, with a tone that “wasn’t his thing”
On the other hand, the mayor of Canelones was consulted about the criticism that the president received during the inauguration of the Hill Hospital Last monday. “That’s not right,” he responded. Orsi about the way in which some protesters expressed themselves, “but the president’s tone was not good either,” he added.
“It was there in almost campaign key to debate with the posters. It wasn’t his thing, he wasn’t like that,” said the Canarian mayor.
Furthermore, he said that “the popular demonstration is going to exist” and “it should not be scary.” In any case, he pointed out that “what happened now is good” with the inauguration of the hospital, and recalled that “the first renovation of that polyclinic was done Tabaré Vázquez”, Therefore, it is the representation of “positive accumulation” between successive administrations.
Source: Ambito
