The mayor of Montevideo and pre-candidate for the presidency of Uruguay for him Frente Amplio, Carolina Cossequestioned the government’s attitude in the electoral campaign that has just begun, as well as “the lack of direction” of the administration headed by Luis Lacalle Pou376 days before it ends.
“I am worried that the government will get involved in the campaign. In the case of the president, it violates the Constitution”, considered cosse, consulted about the scene that was observed on Monday morning within the framework of the inauguration of the new reference center for social policies “Aparicio Saravia” of the Ministry of Social Development (Mides); which brought together the main candidates of the National Party, Álvaro Delgado and Laura Raffo, along with numerous white leaders—among them, Lacalle Pou.
For the opposition, the event had a partisan tone that it should not have had, since it was a Mides activity, and with the presence of the president.
Beyond direct criticism of the event, cosse He went one step further, and assured that the main reason for concern is “the lack of direction” of the national authorities. “It is a government that told us that it was prepared to govern, and that throughout this period of government has not let us rest, firing and changing ministers again and again, with a Minister council unstable. That is not being prepared to govern, and it seems to me that this instability comes because in reality they were not prepared, they wanted to govern to get rid of the Wide Front”, he stated at a press conference.
In contrast, the mayor of Montevideo pointed out that the left coalition has “a clear course” marked by the program voted in December, in the Congress of the party. “I think people are intelligent and detect when there is a desire to govern and when there are other kinds of things,” she considered; and insisted that the Frenteamplista program “touches all the concerns, challenges of growth, social inclusion, sovereignty and insertion in the world, of surrounding culture with an ecosystem, health.
“We have a comprehensive program, very well worked out, which is the framework for a government plan to consolidate it as a direction,” he noted.
About your campaign in particular, cosse He maintained that “it will be proposals.” “I have already mentioned some of them, which have to do with eradicating the infantilization of poverty, universalizing the transfer system, and having an articulated territorial presence. There are proposals, and we are going to mature more proposals around the program,” she concluded.
“A very old vision”
The weekend also brought cosse a crossing with people from his own coalition, and nothing more and nothing less than with the former president Jose Mujica —leader of the Movement of Popular Participation (MPP) which also integrates Yamandu Orsi, who still emerges as the main Frente-Amplista candidate.
In this regard, the former president assured that the mayor of Montevideo “is not supported” in the interior and that the still communal head of cannelloni He is the only one who has a chance of beating the whites in the October elections.
Without getting into too much controversy, cosse He maintained that he “respects” Mujica, but considered that dividing the country between Montevideo and the Interior “is a very old version.” The objective was to lower the level of tension that escalated in the internal frontamplista after the former president’s statements: “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.”
“Nothing is going to distract me from what I think is the most important thing right now, which is to embrace our program, to embrace the possibility of a different future for the Uruguay and a better future,” said the pre-candidate of the Broad Front.
Source: Ambito
