Martin Lema and Alvaro Garcia they sound in the ranks of the National Party (PN) and of Broad Front (FA)respectively, as candidates for the Municipality of Montevideo (IM) for the elections to be held next year in Uruguay.
While the majority is focused on the October elections that will define the next president—or president—of the country, others are already thinking about the lists for mayors, although without ceasing to observe what may happen at the national level: as What happens in June and how the formulas for the general elections are confirmed, the electoral map in 2025.
An example is the negotiations that are already taking place between the parties of the Multicolor Coalition to present in different departments —Salto, Canelones, Paysandú, Río Negro and Rocha— under the same motto: Republican Coalition. But National Party and the Wide Front They are also beginning to outline their candidacies for Montevideo.
Martín Lema is emerging as a favorite in the PN
The minister of Social Development (Mides), Martín Lemais the one that sounds loud among the ranks of the National Party as someone who could possibly take over the mayor’s office that has been in the hands of the Frente Amplistas for the last 35 years, according to El País. With Laura Raffo Outside of the options by his own decision, the leader is seen favorably to occupy one of the three places to be shared with the coalition partners.
For now, Lema prefers to remain dedicated to ministerial management, without giving any signs to one side or the other that he may accept the candidacy; Although some leaders see as interesting on a political level the tours that he began to take through peripheral neighborhoods of the capital and Cannelloni.
Meanwhile, several important names in the party are those who mention it positively. One of them is the former Minister of the Interior Luis Alberto Heber, who referred to Lema as “a great candidate and suitable for the position,” as well as “a strong bet.” The Minister of Transportation and Public Works, José Luis Faleropointed out that the Mides owner “would bring a lot of prestige to the party.
Other names that are heard within the PN for the position are that of the vice president Beatriz Argimon —although I would also view Lema favorably— and that of the former union leader Valeria Ripoll.
In any case, the priority remains the national election, to maintain the presidency for another five years.
The request by Álvaro García in the Frente Amplio
Meanwhile, on the Change.org website, activists are gathering signatures for the former director of the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP), Alvaro Garcia, be the Broad Front candidate to succeed Carolina Cosse in front of Montevideo.
The candidacy of the current coordinator of the Program Commission of the political force and leader of the sector Platform —which supports the presidential candidacy of Mario Bergara— was promoted by the former director of Decentralization of the OPP, Pedro Apezteguía. And the goal is to install the idea publicly.
“Carolina and Yamandú or Yamandú and Carolina will navigate times of change, with uncertainties and threats, but with hopes and new utopias, overcoming five years of stagnation, setbacks and setbacks,” the leader wrote in the argument of the petition. In this framework, he said he is convinced that “we must take new steps and continue thinking about Montevideo and its objectives in the second progressive cycle that is coming.”
Likewise, and as he explained to the newspaper, the formula that seems to be the most probable —Yamandu Orsi along with Cosse, although the order will be what is defined in the June elections—“not all the sensitivities that are in the FA are there, nor are there all those that surely many militants and voters would like them to be there.”
Apezteguía’s intention is to “put more figures into play,” and “Álvaro’s permanent drive to think about the future and its challenges, his commitment to a direction that both Tabare [Vázquez] and Danilo [Astori] they did not hesitate to trust [en él] in its maintenance, time and time again, they make it a natural reference to lead this city and this department in the coming period.”
For his part, García told the newspaper that although he received the proposal as “a flattery”, It is still “very early” to discuss the candidacies for the departmental elections” and that, in addition, “we must go through the organic channels” of the party.
“If you consider my name to be a compliment, it will be seen in due course; When the political times are for this, we will see. We have the focus on the internal ones, on strengthening Seregnista-Progressives Call with the pre-candidacy of Mario Bergara and the October elections. Then we will see how the circumstances unfold,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
