“Uruguay forward” will be the electoral slogan of the former Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgadowho launched his campaign this Monday, accompanied by several members of the government and with a speech that vindicates the current administration, before beginning a tour throughout the country.
The table he chose for the presentation of his campaign is a sign about who, surely, will be the main figures who will accompany Slim in what is to come, and was made up of the current ministers Martin LemaofSocial Development (Mides)and Javier Garciaof National defensewho are expected to resign from their positions in the coming days, as well as the Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimón.
In front of them were a large number of leaders from the Aire Fresco sector, from legislators to mayors and mayors, with the idea of accompanying the candidate who will claim the management of the national government in his speeches.
“We are going to offer people the possibility of re-electing the government,” he said. Slim at the launch of his campaign, which will have as a bunker the same place used by the President Luis Lacalle Pou in the previous electoral contest. “We are tremendously committed to this government. We are the heart of this government,” emphasized the candidate of the National Party (PN).
Likewise, he added that the current government “put the house in order, which was quite disordered,” and that it also “started to move the country forward.” Later, he referred to what he considered the “achievements” of the current administration, including educational reform and social security reform.
“We can display an ordering of the house with responsibility in fiscal and economic matters. We have to say with pride that we belong to a government that had five crises and spent more than 4.5 billion dollars to alleviate them,” he said. Slim before adding: “A government that today, four years later, has a record of people working, has three points less unemployment.”
“We generated investment, exports increased, it had a social policy like rarely seen, taxes were lowered and there was an increase in real wages,” he continued.
Slim He remarked that “it does not exist in the history of Uruguay“an investment plan of 3.6 billion dollars, like the one being carried out by the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP).
“A bridge in the coalition”
The leaders who accompanied Slim In their presentation they highlighted the figure of the pre-candidate, although they also put opinions and criticisms of a political nature on the table.
Vice President Argimón defined Slim as “the man of dialogue not only among his colleagues, but also the one who has been a permanent bridge with the parties of the coalition of which we are part.”
Minister Lema expressed that “this great government team had to choose a new leader, a driver, and that is Álvaro.” “We are fully convinced that, apart from the background, there is much to offer for the future,” he stated.
Finally, García pointed out: “We are part of a government coalition that we embrace, and that four years later we believe has proven to be an effective and efficient instrument.”
Source: Ambito
