The historic legislator has held a seat in the Deputies since 2005 and is the main parliamentary figure of his political force.
The historical legislator of the Independent Party (PI), Iván Posadarecently announced that it will not go for the renewal of its banking in Deputies during the Elections 2024something that will force its political force to reconfigure, at least at the parliamentary level.
Inn He has been an uninterrupted deputy since February 15, 1995, when he obtained a seat in the Lower House as a member of the Nuevo Espacio, a party dissolved in 2003 that currently functions as a sector of the Broad Front (FA) and that gave rise to the current PI, with a Christian humanist and social democratic ideology.
Before his performance in the Legislative Palace, Inn He was also councilor for Montevideo on two occasions between 1985 and 1995, when he was a member of the FA. Likewise, he accompanied the leader of the PI, the Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresin the presidential formula as a pre-candidate for vice president in the 2004 and 2009 elections.
In the last 2019 election, the PI had an electoral performance below expectations and only managed to retain the seat of Inn, after it had reached 3.09% of the votes (73,379 votes) in the 2014 elections. This historic result allowed him to obtain three deputies: Inn, Daniel Radio and Heriberto Sosaby Montevideo, cannelloni and Maldonado, respectively. At the same time, Mieres managed to enter the Senate Chamber.
Today, the member party of the Republican Coalition It will have to be reconfigured towards the next elections. Own Innwho will not retire from active politics, acknowledged to Informativo Uruguay that his decision is due to the fact that “it is time to give space to other political spaces and promote internal competition.”
“The PI has been a parliamentary party, it was the only thing we could show and in this period that changed. Today there is executive management,” said the legislator in reference to the minister. Mieres.
The role of the PI in the coalition for the 2024 Elections
At the end of last year, Mieres He told Telemundo that the PI demonstrated its efficiency by “co-governing” within the government alliance, but that now it was necessary to “renew that path,” since the great debate this year will not be between left and right, but “between continuing to advance.” or the brake”.
“We are going for the best, we feel prepared to govern,” explained the minister in reference to his party’s electoral possibilities. “The government program has a very strong emphasis on social and productive development,” he said.
“When you go out on the field what you seek is to convince the citizens and get them to support us, and of course be part of a co-government, because surely no one can govern alone,” he emphasized.
Source: Ambito
