The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cosseofficially launched his electoral campaign with criticism of the national “right”, and the historical path that the Uruguay under the governments of Colorado Party (PC) and of National Party (PN)before his political force came to power in 2005.
In that sense, the departmental leader indicated that the next elections 2024 They translate into a dilemma between “taking the path of the great majorities” or “the path of regression, that of the right.”
“Uruguay lived on the right-wing path for many years,” commented the Broad Front politician, who indicated that with this “we had an unstable health system that was collapsing.”
“The country wandered until the crisis of 2002”
Cosse went further and said that public health was “shameful”, that education was “subsumed in misery”, that there were “lack of investment in energy”, that previous administrations “prepared public companies to sell them” and that “the country wandered” until the banking crisis due to financial insolvency in 2002.
“This whole course happened to the country following the right-wing path, without Salary Councils, without distribution,” Cosse emphasized, before adding: “In 2005 Uruguay decided to change and decided to take the path to the left.
Likewise, the mayor of the capital pointed out that during the three mandates of the FA, the budget of the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) multiplied by three, thus the budget allocated to public education.
“When Uruguay took the path to the left, the salary councils were set up, but in addition an economic policy of growth, stimulation of investment and the opening of around 60 markets was developed,” said the pre-candidate before stating that all this was accompanied by “a sustained increase in real wages.”
Regarding energy, Cosse pointed out that during the right-wing governments “there was zero investment”, but that in the FA governments “they defined a change in the energy matrix” and a transition to renewable energies through UTE.
“Today the virtuous circle between growth and distribution was broken”
Along the same lines, he stated that during the current government of the President Luis Lacalle Pou “the virtuous circle between growth and distribution was broken”, and that today public companies like Antel “are in quietism”, or “remedies are lacking” in Public Health.
“It seems quite obvious that when Uruguay takes the path to the right, it doesn’t go well for us,” said Cosse, who called for “taking the path to the left in the Uruguayan style,” which is “inspired by the artistic ideology” and behind “the flag of (Fernando) Granted“.
Source: Ambito
