The former president will leave the General Secretariat of the political space on March 1, prior to the 2024 elections.
The ex-president Julio María Sanguinetti announced that on March 1 he will leave the General Secretariat of the Colorado Party to begin “a renewal” in that political space, which has several options for the 2024 elections.
The 87-year-old Colorado leader assured that at the beginning of next year “a cycle ends” when participating in a sector meeting. Batllistas, where several leaders made official their support for the candidacy of the Minister of Tourism, Tabaré Viera.
In that sense, the former president noted: “We built the alternative, we won the election and we worked from the coalition. Now that gives way to another stage and a renewal process comes.”
In any case, he clarified that it is far from being a retirement. “Naturally I will continue in political life, in the Executive Council, fighting for my ideas,” expressed one of the great political leaders of Uruguay.
Sanguinetti highlighted the achievements of the Coalition
Sanguinetti He joked that this was his “fifth resurrection,” highlighting the new political cycle that began in 2018 “when we planted the seed of the coalition with Jorge Larrañaga and Luis Lacalle Pou”.
For the former president, the Republican Coalition formed a successful electoral alternative and highlighted among its milestones the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC) and its victory in the plebiscite.
The inside of the Colorado Party
The Colorado reference valued that, facing the June inmates, within the space “very positive profiles” and “different characteristics” will be presented to inmates. Specifically, he described See as “the leader of the bastion of Rivera”, while recognizing his management capacity at the head of Antel, OSE and the tourism portfolio. “He is a figure in the party who has been fundamental in recent years,” he praised.
Finally, he took a step back by pointing out that “there is no clear leadership because the renewal process was not consolidated,” pointing out that the periods of Pedro Bordaberry and Ernesto Talvi “They generated great expectations, unfortunately without culmination.”
Source: Ambito
