The leader of the National Party maintained that “if there is no reelection of a president, there will hardly be a reelection of a vice president.”
The vice president Beatriz Argimon sounds inside National Party as a possible alternative to supporting the formula of the pre-candidate who is elected in the internal elections that will be held in June in Uruguay. However, she rejected the option of being re-elected to the position: “I think that possibility does not exist,” she said.
Argimón referred at a press conference to the issue put on the table by the weekly Busqueda on the same Thursday, and maintained that “it is not about the will” to run again for the vice presidency of the country, but rather about what “juridically corresponds.” “If there is no re-election of a president, there will hardly be a re-election of a vice president,” he said.
In any case, and beyond the first arguments put forward, the hierarchy ruled out that from the National Party have made a formal proposal about it. Likewise, and in relation to the possibility that the white sector will once again bet on a parity formula, She pointed out that she has been working for a long time for the “possibility of real access for more women in the different levels,” so “the formation of the parity formula is important.”
However, Argimón did not fail to remember that “the political logic at the time of the negotiation where the electoral flow It is very important, it is something that is also respected.” “What I prefer is one thing and what citizens obviously mark with their votes is another,” she added.
The vice president denied that the National Party is “behind any campaign”
Argimon He also referred to the complaint of aggression that a trans woman made against the presidential candidate of the Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, and assured that “the National Party “He is not behind any campaign.”
The vice president assured that “when a political party is accused, it is important to explain and make known with reasons why it is accused and to move forward,” when asked at a press conference about the accusation against the former mayor of Cannelloni. In this way, he pointed to the statements of the president of the Frente Amplio, Fernando Pereira, who questioned the PN for “tolerating” what he called “the logic of “Romina Celeste”, in reference to the member of that party who promoted the complaint.
“These are moments where one expresses oneself and sometimes one does not take into account how important it is for us to be clear about these aspects in what is also a special year,” said Argimón regarding the elections 2024 and defined: “That has to do with the quality of democracy as well.”
Source: Ambito
