Government leaders criticized the march “in defense of the democracy and against corruption” called by the PIT-CNT for this Monday, November 13, linked to the political crisis unleashed by the scandal derived from the delivery of the passport to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset.
The Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimón and the Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresshowed today before the press their disagreement with the march organized by the union center.
Argimon He made reference to the fact that the previous governments of the Broad Front (FA) went through “complicated situations” and that no calls of these characteristics were made from the union headquarters for the case Pluna or the case Sayago Gas.
The vice head of state went further and stated that, for this reason, in the Multicolor Coalition They came to the conclusion that “obviously” the FA “is the party of the PIT-CNT“.
Mieres: “Pity for the PIT-CNT”
For his part, the minister Mieres He indicated that the initiative makes him “sad for the PIT-CNT“, and that, this year, it has already carried out several strikes against government reforms, but that this one is “incredible.”
According to Miereshe PIT-CNT is wanting to “give undue control” to the workers, since he does not believe that they feel that the democracy is in danger in the Uruguay or that the government is “corrupt.”
Likewise, he maintained that the management of the PIT-CNT He does a “disservice” to the union movement by promoting a march that, in his opinion, is exaggerated. “It seems a shame that they are raising these things,” the minister emphasized.
He PIT-CNT and the Uruguayan Federation of Housing Cooperatives for Mutual Aid (fucvam) They called for the march from 6:00 p.m. this Monday in the Plaza Libertad (Montevideo). “We mobilize for democracy and against corruption,” they spread through their social networks.
The current political crisis that the government is experiencing due to the delivery of a passport to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset in 2021, which led to the resignation of two of its ministers and other leaders, was the trigger for the call.
Source: Ambito
