The National Party candidate highlighted the achievements in aspects such as fiscal deficit, growth, inflation and salaries.
The pre-candidate of National Party (PN), Laura Raffo, highlighted the direction of the economy after the presentation of the minister Azucena Arbeleche Over the tax results of the government and called to target the microeconomic aspects in a second stage.
Among the issues to improve in an eventual second government, Raffo referred to the “high cost of living of Uruguay”, but also to the border prices Yet the competitiveness, by a message through his GDP It will rise 3.5% this year according to forecasts.
At the same time, he highlighted that “the climate of business continues to improve and investments grow 20% above 2019″, while “there are 76,000 Job positions more than in 2019 and the consumption of households advances 5.4% more” in the same period.
The economist highlighted that “the inflation is the lowest in almost 20 years and this is how salaries yield more”, something that he attributed to “careful economic and fiscal management”, after which he assessed: “The structural fiscal deficit, “which this government received at 4.5%, dropped to 2.7% in 2023.”
Microeconomic reforms
Looking ahead, Raffo anticipated that it is necessary to address “the pending issues,” among which he listed “the high cost of living in Uruguay, the problems with border prices, facilitation for entrepreneurs and SMEs and improvement of competitiveness”.
“These micro reforms are closely linked to debureaucratization and modernization of the State, as well as the generation of more competition and freedom,” said the National Party pre-candidate.
Finally, he admitted that “without this first step of reforms that this government made it would not be possible to achieve it” and, in campaign terms, he looked to the future and declared: “We are going to put our foot on the accelerator and generate those transformations that give “All Uruguayans have opportunities to fulfill their projects and dreams.”
Source: Ambito
