The president learned the news of the death of the leader of the Uruguay Assembly during a meeting at the Executive Tower.
President Luis Lacalle Pou learned of the death of the former vice president and former Minister of Economy Danilo Astori while participating in a national meeting of mayors and municipalities in the Executive Tower. He was an adversary to respect, he recognized the reference of the Wide Front and the economy of Uruguay.
The news about Astori’s death was received with aplomb throughout the Uruguayan political spectrum, and also by the president, who took the stage at the event in which he was participating to send a message to both the family of who was a senator until a year, as well as the left-wing coalition of which he was one of the founders. “It takes us by surprise. Greetings to the family, the leadership and the militants of the Wide Front for the death of Danilo Astori, someone who marked the last 15, 20 years of a important sector of politics where he was,” said Lacalle Pou.
He also added that the 83-year-old former vice president was a “bore adversary”. “And in life one has to have adversaries on the opposite side to respect. To agree, to discuss or to reaffirm ideas,” acknowledged the head of state.
Lacalle Pou also dedicated a few words to him through social networks, where he described Astori as a “protagonist of national politics.”
Astori’s death
The former Minister of Economy and former Vice President of Uruguay, Danilo Astori, He died this Friday morning at the age of 83. He had been admitted to CTI due to respiratory failure since the end of October, after suffering a hip fracture and a microinfarction.
Uruguay ends the week in shock upon learning the news that Danilo Astori, a historic reference not only of the Wide Front —one of the three leaders of the left coalition, along with Tabare Vazquez and Jose Mujica- but of all national politics, died as a result of complications from the health complications that kept him hospitalized in recent weeks.
Recognized as a moderate leader, He was the one who set the economic pulse in the 15 years of Broad Front governments: on two occasions as Minister of Economy – during the first government (2005-2010) and the third (2015-2020); and as vice president in the period 2010-2015.
Source: Ambito
