President Luis Lacalle Pou gave his traditional speech Accountability before him Parliament of Uruguaythe last of his administration and, once finished, it did not take long for the repercussions of the entire political arc and the leaders present in the Legislative Palace. From criticism by the Wide Front even praise from the National Party and the coalition partners, the president’s words generated reactions of all kinds. “I’m happy to be here,” said the former president. Julio María Sanguinetti.
It took just over an hour Lacalle Pou to review the last four years of his administration, thus beginning the 364 days that remain of his government, in which, he assured, he will “keep his promise” of taking charge. For him Broad Front, However, the presidential speech was “without surprises.”
This is what the senator and opposition candidate considered, Mario Bergara, in dialogue with Ambit. “I think it was a speech, a presentation without surprises, where basically, as in previous years, it gives an overview that everything is better,” considered the Frente Amplista leader, and added that “it has been suggested that the outlook is better.” security, I don’t know what Uruguayan society thinks about it.”
Likewise, Bergara pointed out that “there was no reference, for example, to the economy “Uruguay has not grown for a year and a half, we have production and export problems linked to the issue of exchange rate delay”; issues that the legislator has been highlighting as absent in the official pronouncements.
But not everything was negative for the senator: “We even applaud several passages that have to do with the recognition of the need for a state policy in terms of mental health, the recognition also of the work of the entire political system included in the provision on early childhood issues or in the authorization of dredging of the Port Montevideo at 14 meters,” he said.
For his part, the senator Alejandro “Pacha” Sánchez —also a member of the Broad Front and a key player in the assembly of what will be the campaign for the presidency of the former mayor of Cannelloni, Yamandú Orsi— considered that “people are living in a situation of great fear and many deaths.” “I believe again that the president does not live in the same country as us,” he ironized, in reference to the security scenario proposed by Lacalle Pou.
white satisfaction
As expected, the legislators, mayors and leaders of the National Party They were satisfied with the achievements presented by Lacalle Pou before the General Assembly.
In this regard, the former secretary of the presidency and current nationalist candidate, Alvaro Delgado, He defined the president’s presentation as that of “a statesman.” In the same vein, he pointed out Ambit who saw “a president who reviewed these four years of government, highlighting difficult things, among other things, such as the crisis, beginning nothing more nor less than the pandemic, the water issue, you already know.”
“But when the balance of everything that was done despite the five crises that Uruguay cost him 4.5 billion dollars, one says, well, they are four very productive years“Not only was what was promised fulfilled, but much more was done,” added Delgado, and considered that “today we can safely say that there is a government that not only took charge, but did so with secure liability to future”.
Regarding the criticism expressed by representatives of the Broad Front, Delgado responded: “You can argue with me, you can argue with the ministers, you can argue with the president, you cannot argue with reality. The data that I told you are objective data, I know that sometimes it is difficult for you to be able to accept them.” “Why weren’t they done before? Why wasn’t it done in Hill Hospital before, why Route 6 was not made before, why the investments that had to be made, the sanitation, the settlement plan were not made before, when there were 15 years of economic prosperity and own majority“?” the candidate asked himself and added that “that’s why we can argue with whoever we want, we can’t argue with reality.”
For her part, the white candidate also Laura Raffo He said that the president “was very clear about the security situation, he marked the numbers that have improved and also said that we are not satisfied, one is never satisfied with the security transformations.” “We must recognize that it was accomplished,” he stated. the economist.
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Sanguinetti, happy for the democratic exercise
A figure present and recognized by Lacalle Pou in Parliament was that of the former president Julio María Sanguinetti, who said he was satisfied with what was expressed by the current president. “The president talking about the salary, talking about work, talking about the activities of the country and, also very important, the opposition applauding certain passages and applauding the end and standing up, I think that is what counts,” he said.
“In democracy, gestures are substances, they are not formalities. And that, when one compares it, shows the democratic exercise in its fullness. Is it a hallmark of democracy? Uruguayan democracy? Without a doubt. “I am very happy to be here,” said the two-time president of the country.
Source: Ambito
