Defense Minister Javier García was spokesperson for the first meeting of the National Party and assured that the candidate “represents continuity.”
The various sectors of National Party who support the pre-candidacy of the former Secretary of the Presidency Alvaro Delgado facing the elections 2024 that will take place in Uruguay They had their first coordination meeting a few days before the electoral campaigns officially began.
The headquarters of Artigas Boulevard It was the scene of a first coordination meeting of “a wide range of sectors of the National Party” that support the candidacy of Slim as successor to Luis Lacalle Pou and the government of the Multicolor Coalition. With mayors, mayors, members of the Executive Branch, sectoral leaders and even the vice president Beatriz Argimon present, the objective was to begin to outline strategies and priorities for the upcoming campaign.
“We believe that it is very important not to defend the government, because that would mean perhaps reducing it to defending people, and that is not what interests us in politics, but defending the achievements of this government, the achievements that the people obtained, the rights that they gained from the management that Luis Lacalle Pou led and leads,” said the Minister of Defense, Javier García, who was one of the spokespersons for the meeting along with the mayor of Tacuarembó, Wilson Ezquerra.
Among the milestones highlighted by the leader were the increase in employment, the “substantive improvement” of the real salary, the reform of the education, and both “the transformation that is being made in the social Security” as the “revolution in infrastructure”. “A series of advances that we think are worth continuing to consolidate and that end in a benefit for the people, for the Uruguay. That’s why Uruguay is moving forward,” said García, for whom Delgado “represents continuity to continue advancing in the government.”
Likewise, the Minister of Defense highlighted that Delgado’s campaign is being designed based on “participation, consultation and pluralism”; and that within the next few days the name of the group that will bring together all the sectors that support the former Secretary of the Presidency will be announced. As he expressed it, the objective is to work “with great humility and knowing that the government and the President of the Republic, who will not be in the electoral campaign because he is inhibited, is a source of pride for all of us.”
Criticism of the Broad Front
On the other hand, García questioned the Wide Front because “he was left without speech.” “Not only does he not have a program, but he has no speech and in recent hours he has appealed something very particular, I said yesterday with some of you, it is the post-truth.”
In that sense, the leader maintained that the left coalition aims to “distort reality to make it to their liking and try to make the other understand something that is not, that does not belong to reality,” in reference to his complaints regarding the different official figures that the government has been presenting in recent days. As an example, he pointed out the survey of Ministry of Tourism regarding the season advance; and the crime figures for 2023 presented by the Crime Observatory of the Ministry of the Interior.
About him Marset case, Meanwhile, the minister considered that “many times what political leaders believe is important to the people, the people do not believe is important.” “For several months we have been discussing an agenda that the opposition has created and journalism has disseminated, but it turns out that the government continues to have perhaps one of the highest political and popular support most important since the return to democracy, This means that people decide regardless of what opposition leaders want people to believe,” he asserted.
“It’s not that I downplay the importance of the issues, what I’m saying is that Uruguayans value issues that perhaps are not those valued by the leaders of the Wide Front or political analysts,” García added.
Source: Ambito
