The president of Frente Amplio (FA) Fernando Pereirastated that the left coalition “is preparing” to win in the first round and recover the government of Uruguay in the October elections after five years of management of the Multicolor Coalition.
The Political Table of the Wide Front met at the Seregni footprint to continue outlining the electoral strategy for a decisive year for the coalition, after, in December and prior to a summer recess, the four pre-candidates who will compete in the June elections were confirmed: Yamandú Orsi, Carolina Cosse, Mario Bergara and Andrés Lima; and the program of the eventual government will be confirmed.
“We are preparing, we are putting together our organization so that with less resources that the parties that are governing today, but with a very important organizational capacity, manage to win the election in the month of October,” said Pereira in a press conference held on Monday night, after the meeting of the leadership of the FA.
In that sense, he announced that in February the program “I join for Uruguay”, who will seek to tour the different neighborhoods of the country to present the party’s government proposal.
“It means finding people who are going to use different mechanisms to go visit neighbors, family, friends, to be at a fair, to visit every corner of the country and if we manage to do that, surely the Wide Front “He has enormous chances of winning the national election,” Pereira explained in an interview with Telemundo.
According to the president of the left coalition, the polls “do very well for the Broad Front”, with numbers ranging between 44% and 46% for the first round. However, he clarified that they are “aware” that they will win the elections “if the organizational structure and ideas of the Broad Front, That is, their programmatic proposal manages to move Uruguayans.”
“If one adds the militancy, what the polls are giving today in relation to the voting intention of parties, if one adds the power of the candidates and the formula that can be built Broad Front, then we are in unbeatable conditions to build and fight to obtain the parliamentary majority,” he added.
Mujica called for the campaign not to be “porteñoized”
The ex-president Jose Mujica called the militants of Wide Front not to “contribute” to the political campaign in Uruguay facing the 2024 elections, to “not fall into gossip” and other banal issues.
Within the framework of an act of Popular Participation Movement (MPP) in the department of Soriano Last Saturday night, the former president asked to “lift our sights” from the political discussion, and not get lost in discussions such as whether the president Luis Lacalle Pou rode a motorcycle through Punta del Este without regulatory helmet, or if the city of Montevideo It was founded in 1724 or 1726. “Comrades, we are not screwing anyone with that discussion, we have to raise our sights, look a little further,” said Mujica.
The former president went further and asked those present to “look at the challenges that lie ahead” and “not fall into gossip,” since that means “contributing the Uruguay“. “We have many good things to copy from the Argentinabut not that,” he said.
On the other hand, he expressed his desire to “have an electoral campaign to discuss ideas and proposals.” “We have social debts to cover, anyone knows,” she asserted.
Source: Ambito
