“There are more tables than usual, right?” asked the journalist. “…or they are a little further apart, it seems to me,” a colleague continued. A third, more veteran, with a more definitive tone, responded: “no guys: there are much fewer people.” The traditional lunch of ADM (Association of Marketing Managers) on this occasion – at the Radisson Hotel – the mayor of Montevideo, Eng. Carolina Cosse, who discussed the objectives of his administration, with the background touch of plates and cutlery.
The almost total absence of officials from the ruling party was to be expected. Some attendees went into a “feint” when they saw the Secretary of the Presidency leaving through the revolving door of the emblematic hotel, Alvaro Delgado. “Did you come to listen to the mayor?” asked a well-known “movilero”. “No no, there are other people, I was in the third,” he responded immediately. He came from the meetings International Energy Weekwhich was developed with local and international entrepreneurs and experts.
But what drew attention at the ADM lunch was the small number of representatives from the sectors that –in the internal part of the Wide Front- They accompany Orsi (Cosse’s rival internally). I go, or you go, someone has to go… in the end there were few. Some companies, with a large usual presence, also reduced delegation. In any case, Cosse remains impassive with his strategy of strict leadership in the IMM and harsh criticism of the government. Today he will launch his candidacy in the Cordón club (indoors, depending on the weather).
Trains and worries
The mood of Yamandu Orsi It is different and this was seen in Joanicó, at the inauguration ceremony of the company’s logistics and maintenance center ProTren, a society between the Uruguayan Christophersen (today CHR group) and Cointer (from the Spanish group Advi), which has invested almost 100 million dollars in 7 locomotives and 140 wagons to transport cellulose and chemicals for UPM.
In full political crisis for him Marset case and the chats of Ache, The Canarian Mayor – who was playing locally – coincided there with the president Luis Lacalle Pou, with whom he had short but friendly exchanges, while they listened to the company’s presentation and then at the ribbon cutting. The railway businessmen gave both and the minister Falero (Transport) a beautiful miniature replica of the imposing locomotives that were presented at the event. In a moment of distraction, Orsi dropped the gift on the floor; Agitated, he hurried to pick it up. Luckily, he wasn’t hurt (he was well protected). Lacalle Pou joked, but her face conveyed the concern of the moment. “I wish my problems were these,” she seemed to think.
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Despite the early nature of the call, the event room of the Hyatt Hotel It was overflowing. She showed up Agora, the new center for strategic studies and analysis, which some dare to define as the platform of technical staff for an eventual government of the Broad Front, if Yamandu Orsi were elected.
Without disguising, Orsi himself was present at the event, in addition to well-known figures who support him, such as Senator Alejandro “Pacha” Sanchez or the deputy Cristina Lustemrberg. In the front row, the former president of the IDB and former Ibero-American secretary general, Enrique Iglesias, decorated the event and was ready to listen to the central speaker, the Chilean Michele Bachelet, former trans-Andean president.
In the furthest rows appeared businessmen like Edgardo Novick and Alelandro Ruibal, president of the Construction Chamberwhich make up one of the formulas for driving Peñarol. There was also the president of the Union of Exporters, Facundo Márquezwho was encouraged to go further.
The former pro-secretary of the Presidency and trusted man of Jose Mujica: The doctor. Diego Canepa, who was one of the first to arrive. Today he alternates his work between Montevideo and NY, where he works at a prominent law firm. Cánepa took it upon herself to tell – to whoever she wants to listen – that she returned to “give a hand” to the new center, although she has considered herself “outside” of daily political work for years. Despite that, he “stuck” to Mujica throughout the event and accompanied him down all the stairs, until the former president left the hotel, speaking in his ear. The power is missed.
Source: Ambito
