The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio targeted the former Secretary of the Presidency.
The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cosseaccused the former Secretary of the Presidency and current presidential candidate of National Party (PN), Alvaro Delgadoof having “selective amnesia” after his recent statements that the opposition party refused to collaborate with the government during the pandemic.
Slimwhich aims to attract the support of Frente-Amplista voters disenchanted with its political strength, recently said at an event in Maldonado that during the current government administration there was “a Frente-Amplista leadership that did not offer alternatives” and “that has refused everything, even to collaborate in the pandemic.”
After these sayings, on Saturday night at a party event in Silver Parkthe Frente Amplista leader asserted in reference to Slim: “There are some distracted people. Sometimes I wonder if there are people who have selective amnesia.”
“He (Slim) participated in the emergency committee in the Montevideo Municipality (IMM)was there,” he stated. “The IMM from day one publicly said that the director of health policy is the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) and that we put all our support behind that,” he indicated cosse.
The department head continued saying that her government collaborated with the vaccination of the Antel Arena, as well as with mobile vaccinations throughout Montevideo, and that the IMM allocated millions of pesos in food and instruments for popular soup kitchens, as well as for the assistance of artists. “In the face of amnesia, we recover our memory,” she said about it.
“The Broad Front is a program party”
On the other hand, he also responded to the statements of the Minister of National Defense, Javier Garcíawho assured that “the FA not only has no program, but it has no speech.”
“The FA is a program party. It’s not that it has a program, the FA was born with a program when no one talked about a government program and everyone was betting on the candidate,” he remarked.
Source: Ambito
