The presidential candidate of the Frente Amplio presented his resignation letter to the Departmental Board of Canelones.
The mayor of Canelones, Yamandu Orsi,He presented his resignation from his position on March 1 to dedicate himself fully to the campaign for the elections 2024, in which he will be a pre-candidate for the Wide Front (FA).
This way, Orsi He ends his second term in cannelloni compete in an internal competition where he appears as a favorite and will face the mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse; your pair of Jump, Andrés Lima; and the senator Mario Bergara.
The FA candidate sent the president of the Departmental Board, Diego Núñez, the resignation, which will take effect from the first day of March. “Of my highest consideration. “I hereby inform the Departmental Legislature of my resignation from the position of Mayor of Canelones,” said the MPP leader in the letter.
Orsi was serving his second term in the department, after having been elected in 2015 and then re-elected in 2020. The current Canarian pro-secretary will remain in office, Marcelo Metediera.
Orsi has the support of Mujica
The candidate has the support of the former president Jose Mujica, who endorsed his candidacy from the beginning and in recent days warned that his biggest rival internally, cosse, “She’s great, but she doesn’t beat the whites,” arguing that in the interior “they don’t support her.”
Although the Frente Amplista candidates have so far maintained a competition without raising the tone, the sayings of Mujica provoked responses from different sectors of the FA, including Cosse, who tried to avoid controversy, but warned against “old ideas” such as dividing the country between Montevideo and the interior.
The last one to pick up the gauntlet was Bergara, who considered it “reasonable” for the former president to “enter the campaign in favor of his candidate.” However, he questioned: “To propose that the only candidate who can win the election is Orsi… That is where I think none to the other pre-candidates. It is a mistake and encourages polarization.”
Source: Ambito
