The electoral campaign is taking shape from the exchanges of those who emerge as the strongest figures in the current political scene in the face of the elections that will define who will be the next president of Uruguay: the Broad Front mayor of Cannelloni, Yamandú Orsi, and the former nationalist secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado. Both had a disagreement over the “radicalization” of the opposition.
Any event attended by both candidates can become a setting for exchanges regarding the campaign. This is what happened in Punta del Estewhere Orsi and Slim they agreed; although the press operated as a link to convey the other’s statements regarding this particular issue.
In that sense, it was Slim the one who put the issue on the debate table by pointing out that currently there is “a Wide Front much more radical, without leadership”, given the death of historical figures such as Tabare Vazquez and Danilo Astori. “I feel like this, the firewalls are not there, Vázquez is not there, Astori is not there, who were the ones who set some limits,” considered the former Secretary of the Presidency.
Along these lines, he pointed out that “before there was a more centrist option,” while now the left coalition is “dominated” by the most radical sectors. “What’s more, the two main candidates of the Broad Front, one is supported by MPP The other candidate is already supported by Communist Party”, he added.
“That is why I say that it is very important to try to speak to the people from the center“, the one that is not radicalized, the one that is not fundamentalist, the one that tries in each election to see which is the best option,” he noted. Slim, who is emerging as the pre-candidate who will represent the National Party in the October general elections. “What this Broad Front generates for me is uncertainty”, he concluded.
Orsi’s response
Before the criticism of Delgado, Orsi He noted that “it is his vision, of course, I am sure that he does it with elements that lead him to have that judgment.” However, he pointed out that “it is all very questionable, it is an assessment that I do not share.” “Maybe he is doing it, and without maybe, like campaign strategytoo,” he added at a press conference.
“Is a electoral mischief their expressions, we all know what the Wide Front after 15 years of government. Before, there was a lot of concern about what would happen, and even a Tupamaro as president, I don’t forget that, and it was logical that it would happen. But the years passed, the administrations passed and the Uruguayan citizens know very well what each thing is and what being radical also means,” considered the Broad Front candidate who, in March, will begin a tour of the interior of the country to promote his candidacy in the internal of the current opposition.
“I prefer to be radical with injustice, I prefer to be radical with people’s poverty, I prefer to be radical to solve the root problems of childhood and poverty, and there I believe that many of us share that vision,” he concluded. Orsi.
Source: Ambito
