The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cosseregretted the recent exchange of words between the President Luis Lacalle Pou and the vice president of the government of Venezuelaafter the president said that that country is under “a dictatorship.”
On Sunday, the President of the Republic had said that “eye-breaking” the fact that in Venezuela “there is a dictatorship” and that the coalition’s position “is clear” in this regard. These words were not well received by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade and Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguezwho accused Lacalle Pou of “having the face of a lackey” and “wagging his tail when his masters from the north give him orders.”
This Wednesday, the Broad Front candidate assured in a press conference that she finds what Lacalle Pou expressed about the South American country “regrettable,” since she “strongly defends the self-determination of the people.”
In addition, cosse He indicated that he also found it regrettable the exchange of words between “personalities with responsibility within different countries” and stressed that “we must not interfere with the internal issues of the people that have to be resolved by them.”
“I want for him Uruguay the best and that no one interferes in the internal affairs of the Uruguay“, he pointed cossewho added: “That’s why I don’t get involved in the internal affairs of other countries.”
cosse believes that Lacalle Pou He should not have expressed himself that way, and commented that “when one has an investiture, one does not speak for oneself, one speaks for the country”, so “one must be respectful.”
“It was one epithet against another, from one country to another, we have to be serious about this,” he said. After being asked if she sympathizes with Lacalle Pou after the insults of Rodriguez, He stressed: “I stand in solidarity with the Uruguayan people for the right to be master of their destiny, with that I stand in solidarity.”
“Our diplomacy has been quite hit”
Along these lines, regarding Rodríguez’s words, he stated that these issues must be resolved “in the diplomatic sphere”, which is quite hit in our country, since “we lost the chancellor (Ernesto Talvi) three months after this government took office, then we lost the chancellor (Francisco Bustillo) a few months ago because he lied to Parliament, now there is another chancellor (Omar Paganini) doing what we can, we are not doing well in diplomacy.
“This is resolved with serious diplomacy and with care, without saying epithets when sweeping,” concluded the FA presidential candidate in this regard.
Source: Ambito
