The ex-president Jose Mujica assured that the Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, “he doesn’t beat the whites” and the internal violence broke out. Broad Front, with its own leaders who questioned the phrase, but also others from the ruling party who echoed it.
The preference of Mujica for him mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, within the framework of the Broad Front presidential bid in the face of the elections 2024. “Cosse is great, but they don’t support her in the interior and we lost the 2019 elections because of the interior,” argued the former president.
One of the first to react was the FA senator, Oscar Andrade, who from his X account noted: “We don’t learn more, what an ugly disease sectarianism makes you stone your own ranch.” It is brotherhood and unity to fight for causes,” he noted.
In turn, the former undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), Pablo Ferreriused the same route to point out that “the Wide Front has four excellent candidates, there are plenty of reasons to support any of them without needing to discredit the others” and stated: “In addition, to win we all need each other, it is not one or the other that wins, the Broad Front will win, which is above all the things, unity.”
The words to bank cosse They also arrived from the Municipality of Montevideo. “With that same argument we were guided in the decisions in the last elections and that is how it turned out for us,” said the IM Health Director, Virginia Cardozo, while his International Relations counterpart, Fabiana Goyeneche, He stated: “If we want the FA to win, we can stop constructing pessimistic stories about the candidates.”
From the Coalition they got involved in the internal bid
The tension in the Frente Amplista ranks also generated a response from some pro-government leaders. This is the case of the white senator Sebastian Da Silva, who, in a sarcastic tone, stated: “What a beautiful intern. The worst Frente Amplio. What Tribilin doesn’t say, the Big Bad Wolf says.”
Meanwhile, the departmental legislator for National Party, Diego Rodríguez, He asserted: “We all know that Cosse is not up to par (just look at his management at IM, Antel and Industria), but Mujica’s statements are as alarming as they are worrying. According to him, Orsi is a good candidate ‘because he is from the Canary Islands and ta!’ “Mamita, the worst Broad Front in history.”
The questions also came from the Colorado Party. The presidential candidate Gabriel Gurmendez He accused him of being “authoritarian as always” and expressed: “He divides the opinion of the country only between the Frente Amplio” and the whites. Respect that we are red, that we are neither one thing nor the other.”
Your internal competitor, Guzmán Acosta y Lara, He also expressed himself about it. “Defending his political chick. Today a Colorado would make his only objective, which is to win the elections, more complicated. “Mujica should stop underestimating us, in the Colorado Party we are more alive than ever,” he shot.
Source: Ambito
