After the Broad Front presidential candidate, Mario Bergara, lost the support of two sectors that leaned towards its competition internally, Yamandú Orsi, Uruguay Assembly He ratified his intentions to accompany the politician in this year’s elections.
This Sunday, the sector founded by Danilo Astori, Uruguay Assembly, ratified Bergara’s support. In a statement regarding what was resolved in the assembly, they assured that they ratify “comrade Mario Bergara as a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic because they consider that he is the one who best represents the vision that the sector has about the country.”
However, the group reported that they resolved to “enable the departmental departments in the interior of the country to develop the electoral strategy that is convenient with respect to the pre-candidacies based on the various territorial sensitivities.”
Loss of support and discouraging polls
Last week the presidential candidate lost the support of two sectors within the Wide Front: Platform and Magnolia. These announced that they would begin to support Bergara’s competition within the inmates, the former mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi.
Another of the bad news that the candidate has to receive is the fact that he is not among the favorites within his party. In the latest polls, the most elected was Yamandu Orsi – who is in a delicate situation after receiving a complaint for mistreatment of a trans woman -, followed by the mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse. Bergara occupies third place with percentages that do not exceed 10%.
An alliance that leaves Bergara out
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
