The mayor of Montevideo was consulted about the former president’s statements that “they don’t support her” in the interior and avoided a direct response.
The Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, He assured that “he does not want to argue” with the former president Jose Mujica, who assured that the presidential candidate of the Wide Front “he doesn’t beat the whites” in the elections 2024.
After the former president once again expressed his sympathies towards the mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, something that earned him criticism from various sectors, Cosse assured that he “respects” Mujica, but considered that dividing the country between Montevideo and the interior “is a very old vision.”
The FA candidate tried to avoid arguing with the former president, but, when asked at a press conference, she maintained that “falling into that two-dimensional thing of Uruguay It takes us back, thinking that Uruguay is a Montevideo homogeneous and a homogeneous interior is a very old vision.”
This is how she responded to the MPP leader, who said that “they don’t support her” in the interior, which is why the leader “doesn’t beat the whites” in this year’s vote, which is why she highlighted the figure of Orsi.
Cosse tried to tone down the tone within the FA
In that line, cosse He admitted his “great affection and respect” for Mujica, but he clarified: “With some things, as with any Broad Front, I share opinions, with others I don’t.”
When trying to lower the internal decibels of the Broad Front, He added: “We have scope to discuss things and those scopes are never the media. “I am not going to argue with any fellow Frente Amplista through the media.”
In campaign key, Cosse said: “Nothing is going to distract me from what I think is the most important thing at this moment, which is to embrace our program, embrace the possibility of a different future for the Uruguay and a better future.”
“We have to change reality and for that we have to know it well. I believe that reality has many more facets and there is much more that unites us than separates us. We must have a surpassing, renewed and profound vision of reality,” she concluded after participating in an event with the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala.
Source: Ambito
