The senator of Wide Front and pre-candidate for the presidency of Uruguay for the left coalition, Mario Bergara, joined the internal controversy unleashed by the former president’s statements Jose Mujica regarding the other pre-candidates, and stated that, in addition to “ignoring” the competitors for heading the electoral list in October, they “foster polarization.”
The tension in the internal Broad Front continues to grow after Mujica considered that the pre-candidate of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) Yamandú Orsi “he is the only one who can beat the whites” and that Carolina Cosse “It’s great, but they don’t support it inside.”
Although the same mayor of Montevideo tried to downplay the former president’s comments by saying that he prefers not to argue with his fellow Broad Front members – although he questioned his “very old vision” of sharply separating the capital from the rest of the country’s departments – there were several leaders of the Wide Front those who came out to question the words of the historic leader.
The last to join the criticism was the senator and representative of the Seregnism in the internal Broad Front, Mario Bergara, who had a harsher tone than his co-religionists who are also competing to be the opposition candidate in October.
Bergara’s criticisms
“It seems reasonable to me that Mujica enter the campaign and do so in favor of your candidate. Up to that point it seems reasonable to me,” Bergara considered in the Informal Breakfast program. However, she added that “proposing that the only candidate who can win the election is Orsi… that is where I think he ignores the other candidates.” The total list is four leaders: Orsi, Cosse, Bergara and is completed by the mayor of Jump, Andrés Lima.
“I think it is a mistake and encourages polarization, which is not good for the Broad Front. “That does not have a unitary spirit,” said the former president of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) and disciple of Danilo Astori.
According to Bergara, “no one received very well in the Wide Front that approach” Mujica. “But you end up saying ‘well, it’s Pepe, everyone knows him.’ El Pepe has a certain impunity to say some things. But it is clear that it cannot be interpreted as a unitary and fraternal gesture,” he noted.
“Everyone can highlight what they think are their strengths, without the need for a clash of negative things from internal competitors. But it is clear that the candidates have different perspectives and represent spaces with different ideologies,” Bergara concluded.
Source: Ambito
