Javier Garciaminister of Defending of the country, the government of Luis Lacalle Pou and assured that he hopes that in 2029 the politician will run again as president; Furthermore, he defended the perspective given to his portfolio where there was a focus on human defense.
“We made a profound change in terms of defending. We established that the defense of the country was going to be based on human defense,” the leader stated in an interview with Radio Sarandí. Meanwhile, regarding his aspirations for the president Luis Lacalle Pou – who will serve two consecutive terms next year – assured that he hopes he will run in the 2029 elections.
“We are doing well, we must continue. Starting in 2029, I aspire for Lacalle Pou to be president again, before that I aspire for him to be president of the Board of Directors of the National Party”García remarked.
The demolition law
The minister defended the operation of the demolition law which was implemented between 2020 and September 2023 where 230 irregular flight interventions were carried out in Uruguayan airspace, according to the media. Meanwhile, the year of greatest intervention was 2021 where 61 interventions were applied. This is followed by the year 2020 where 57 were registered and in 2023 – until the month of September – 31 interventions were registered.
“It is a deterrent law, we participate in a corridor, with Paraguay Brazil and Argentina. Argentina is analyzing the issue and Paraguay is discussing the situation. This law was established, the law was used many times in its different phases, it never reached phase five of the elimination,” García explained.
The approval of the Lacalle Pou government is 42%
President Luis Lacalle Pou maintains a stable approval of his government management at the head of Uruguay now entering the last year of his mandate, despite the recent scandals that have hit, in principle, people very close to him, as indicated by the latest survey of Consultants Option.
The consulting firm Opción presented the results of its latest survey on perception of the management of the national governmentwhich showed little change in the area of approval for Lacalle Pou. A positive aspect, considering the recent controversy surrounding the Marset case and the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker, which ended with the resignation of two ministers, an undersecretary and a presidential advisor, as well as the possibility that the head of state himself would be called to testify in court for his participation in the events. .
In this sense, the results of the survey highlighted that the approval rate continues to “reach the 42%.”
This is not the case with the disapproval towards the management of the government in general, where the greatest impact of the accumulation of scandals with which the government reaches its last year was observed: “disapproval registers a 8 point growth compared to the previous quarter, standing at 32%, the report noted.
With these figures, the consultancy affirms that “a strong stability trend in the approval of government work. “12% of Uruguayans maintain that management is very good and another 30% consider it to be good.”
This stability is also due to the fact that there have now been six consecutive quarters with minimal or no variations in approval, “which allows us to conclude that the government has a ‘hard’ floor of approvalresistant to various events of the situation”.
Source: Ambito
