The leader of the Colorado Party highlighted him for “the modernization of the Uruguayan left” and the nationalist highlighted his “level of national encounter.”
The former presidents Julio María Sanguinetti and Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera They highlighted the figure of the recently deceased Danilo Astori, former vice president and former minister of Economy and Finance, by highlighting his role in seeking consensus and “modernizing” the Broad Front.
The person who spoke on this line was Sanguinetti, leader of the Colorado Party, who stated: “I see Danilo as a fundamental figure in what I consider the modernization of the Uruguayan left. Thus, he considered that Astori It was key to “the development of compatibility between the market economy, social ideas, and the welfare state that we have tried to build.”
The former president referred to the years after the dictatorship and maintained that “it has been a stage of development, of progress, in which all the parties have alternated and within which the figure of Danilo Astori It is extraordinarily relevant.”
At a press conference, at the end of an event held for the VIII Energy Week, Sanguinetti He assured that “he exercised intellectual leadership with his precision and way of speaking, nourishing all the debates” and concluded: “I add to that the value of a great citizen and an honest public servant and a formidable intellectual.”
Lacalle Herrera valued the “level of national meeting”
To its turn, Lacalle Herreraformer president of the National Party, joined in honoring the memory of the former vice president, as his counterpart had already done Jose Mujica and maintained that Astori He was “a difficult man to be an adversary, harsh in criticism,” but he still valued him considering that “he always had a national level of encounter.”
Far from expressing their differences, the former president stated: “At the moment he passes into the next world, one has to stop all criticism and wish his family and his political community a heartfelt condolences.” In this regard, he concluded: “The analysis of his management will remain for posterity.”
Source: Ambito
