In the heat of the race ahead of the 2024 elections, the presidential candidate had the support of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera.
The presidential candidate for the National Party, Laura Raffo, called to work as a team and bet on “a Uruguay of comprehensive well-being” to win the internal ones in the face of the elections 2024.
Raffo In this way, it seeks to gain space in the competition within the ruling party, in which at the moment, according to different surveys, the former Secretary of the Presidency is second and leading, Alvaro Delgado, both above the senator Jorge Gandini, the remaining leader among the confirmed pre-candidates.
With that objective in mind, the economist called for “betting on a Uruguay of comprehensive well-being” during the traditional annual meeting of herrerismo, held at Casa Bahía de La Paloma, Rocha, where there were figures like the former president Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and the former Minister of the Interior, Luis Heber, along with legislators such as Rodrigo Blás, Gloria Rodríguez, Juan Rodríguez, Daniel Martínez and Sebastián Andujar.
When speaking to those present, Raffo assured that “the Uruguayans “We deserve well-being that goes beyond basic needs, which must be covered more than ever.”
In an electoral key, he compared the electoral year to “a relay race” and noted: “The first relay is on June 30 and you know what you have to do: prepare the lists, open the committees and fight on every corner to win.” ”. “I assure you one thing: if we are listening, if we are action, if we are a team, we will win the internal election on June 30. National Party”, stated the Herrerism pre-candidate.
Lacalle Herrera highlighted Raffo as “a modern candidate”
During his participation, the former president Lacalle Herrera, already recovered and without consequences of a stroke that he suffered months ago, described Raffo as “a modern candidate” and referred to what she considers “the third Herrerism.”
When delving into this concept, he highlighted that “the herrerism that is presided over here today by Heber It is a link from two previous ones” and he reviewed that in the second blacksmithing there are “people who worked with Herrera”, while he compared: “Now there is no more, because I must be one of the last to remember Herrera, when he died I was 17 years old.”
In turn, the former Minister of the Interior was self-critical and did not rule out the possibility of changes in the management of space. “That’s what the structures are for, to have that instance of discussion and not have to have the discussion outside,” he stated. Heber.
Source: Ambito
