Two organizations belonging to the Broad Front (FA), Magnolia and Platform, they changed their support for the presidential candidate, Mario Bergara, due to the participation in the campaign of another candidate for the same party, the former mayor of Cannelloni, Yamandú Orsi.
During Saturday’s day, Magnolia published a letter inviting the groups of the Progressive Seregnista Call (CSP) to renounce the presentation with their own pre-candidacy and seek political agreements with the aim of supporting the pre-candidate Yamandú Orsi.
The request is made in accordance with the “real need to accumulate electoral and political efforts in the construction of an internal bloc larger than the current one” in the context that the electoral polarization that occurred within the party was already occupied by Orsi and the mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse.
“Its electoral and political growth is enhanced by strengthening ideas and proposals, strategic agreements with other sectors, in specific areas of government and in political forms of internal and external consensus to the political force, and by being radically forceful in policies of change” , they stated in the statement.
Orsi opened the doors for a formula with Cosse
The former mayor of cannelloni He pointed out as “nonsense” the possibility of not accepting the vice presidency if Carolina Cosse be the one who wins the internal elections of the left coalition in June. “Who thinks of saying: ‘no, vice president is too small for me’?” he questioned.
A little less than four months before the parties decide in the internal who will be the representatives of each political space in the October general elections, and despite the fact that the Broad Front primaries have four precandidates, It is very possible that the election will be rather dichotomous, and that the candidate of the left coalition will be decided between the mayor of Montevideo in use of license and the former Canarian mayor.
Polls still give him an advantage Orsi over her competitors, the capital’s mayor Carolina Cosse, the mayor of Andrés Lima Falls and the senator Mario Bergara. But in the last survey of Figure, There was one fact that did not go unnoticed by the campaign teams: the growth in voting intention for the Wide Front was, almost everything, in Montevideo. Faced with this, the possibility of a “surprise” in the formation of the formula began to be considered in a veiled manner and, externally, the role of the vice presidency gained greater weight.
In that sense, Cosse was the first to mention the issue this year, with the launch of the electoral campaign. As she expressed it, she would be “delighted” to share the presidential ticket with Orsi, and pointed out that “Yamandú would be an excellent vice president,” in case she is the first in the internal elections; while, if she came second, she would “delightedly be the vice president,” as long as the Wide Front decide it.
Orsi also referred to the formation of the possible presidential formula and assured that it would be “nonsense” to reject the vice presidency if he came second in the internal race. “If tomorrow I have to occupy that place, I think it will answer itself,” he said in an interview with Channel 10.
“I want to be president. If the citizens decide that I am not the one who wins and I have to be vice president, who would think of saying: ‘no, vice is too small for me’. Nonsense. It would be the most incredible thing that could happen to you.” to someone like us who come from militancy on foot. It would be inconceivable to say: no, not vice president,” said the former mayor of Canelones.
Source: Ambito
