The president of the FA, Fernando Pereira, spoke of a “dirty campaign” and said that they seek to “publicly ban” the former mayor of Canelones.
He Wide Front came out to show strong support for the presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi, after the formal complaint of assault, filed by a trans woman and investigated by the Ciudad de la Costa Prosecutor’s Office.
The president of the FA, Fernando Pereira, was one of the most vehement in defending Orsi, pointing out that there is “a dirty campaign that has no precedent in the Uruguay” and considered that the objective is “to try to publicly ban one of the party’s candidates with the greatest voting intention.”
For Pereira, “if there was a complaint to be made, the format chosen is very strange, a communication through a social network,” and he stated that “from our point of view, part of a orchestrated campaign.
The Frente Amplista leader questioned the delay in realizing who he is Orsi “when all the surveys put him among the ten best-known people of the last five years, not to mention the last year.”
More voices of support in the Frente Amplio
In the opposition, after the statements of Carolina Cosse In the run-up to Orsi’s public statement, several legislators came out in defense of the pre-candidate. One of them was the senator Charles Carrera, who considered that “this insertion maneuver is very low” and pointed out from X: “Candidates are not prescribed based on lies.”
By the same token, his pair Alejandro Sanchez He spoke of “getting to the bottom” and noted that “not everything goes.” At the same time, Daniel Caggiani He added: “Yamandú Orsi again as we know him. Authentic. Showing your face, speaking calmly and firmly, with a clear message, for all the citizens of our country and for the hundreds of thousands of militants. Not everything goes in politics. This is just starting. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
Source: Ambito
