The former presidents José Mujica, Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and Julio María Sanguinetti This Monday they shared a lunch of the Association of Marketing Leaders (ADM), where they agreed to provide a message and a call to avoid a dirty electoral campaign, with special emphasis on social networks, in the face of the elections 2024.
With mischief, some chicanery and a lot of complicity, they agreed to present themselves to the audience as a “strange union” of former presidents. Mujica expressed his opinion on the impact of the social networks in the political debate, admitting that these have incorporated positive and negative aspects. “That is why we are here, not because of what we know, but because we are old, to try to help the new generations so that, despite all the differences, they maintain height and preserve that capital that I call us.”
“That’s why we are here, this kind of strange union, which does not exist in any country in the world. Because? Because there are unwavering differences, and no one gives up anything. And we are aware that the freedom It is needed to disagree, not to agree. If it was to agree, we would not have been left with an absolute monarchy,” he reflected.
Lacalle Herrera asked for prudence and reflection
For his part, the former president Lacalle Herrera He focused his intervention on the importance of prudence and reflection within the framework of the intensity of the political campaign. The former president and father of the current president, recommended that political protagonists take a moment before responding to criticism or accusations, counting to ten” to avoid impulsive reactions that can increase conflicts.
“If we count to 10 and do not react immediately, we are going to dampen many of the fights, much less react to what the networks say, which have become a quagmire, where anonymity allows us to say anything and where the cowardice of the queen slander”, defined Lacalle Herrera.
And he added: “We have to realize that respect for differences integrates the National unity. We cannot disqualify, we cannot retrace the path of that unity. Then, diversity with all its fervor, all its enthusiasm.”
“After the last weekend of November there will be a government, I hope I like it, maybe someone else will like it, but whether I like it or not it is the government. So let’s reserve a little affection and respect for not the following Monday in November, but Tuesday,” he concluded, provoking applause from the audience that brought together businessmen and politicians from all parties.
Sanguinetti criticized “the marginalities of the networks”
In turn, the former Colorado president highlighted the importance of maintaining focus on fundamental issues to avoid being influenced “by the marginalities of the networks.”
For Sanguinetti, The important thing is to “discuss what we really have to discuss.” “Let us not allow ourselves to be dragged into the debate by those forces and those phenomena that are there, they are threats that we have to overcome,” said the former president, making specific reference to the anonymity of social networks and hate campaigns that can be found there.
Examples of national unity
Lacalle Herrera took the opportunity to list some issues where he believes there should be national unity, some of which will even be present in this electoral campaign. “For example, we all agree that the Mercosur it does not work. Let us incorporate the analysis of Mercosur into national unity. We all agree that the retirement system It has to be reformed or it had to be reformed and the ages had to be increased. Nobody is against that. No one should be against that,” she noted.
The former president indicated: “We have to be very clear that the public enterprises, because it is property of State, That is, of all of us, they cannot lose money. Nobody can agree on that. We have to agree that state companies are not about losing money, because it is money that we take from the rest of the culture of the state.”
“We agreed on the forest law that passed all these governments; in energy policies that all these governments passed; in the port law that survived all these governments; in it CAIF, in it Mevir. We have to increase the list of issues that form national unity,” he stated.
Furthermore, the former president, with his usual mischief, did not avoid the possibility of taking advantage of the opportunity to express himself politically about the internal affairs of his party and proclaimed himself a voter of Laura Raffo.
The “poison” of the exchange rate delay
Besides, Mujica He also gave his opinion on the current economic situation of the country. “It is very good and I congratulate the fight against inflation. The policy of fiscal balance I think it has come to stay,” said the former president, who warned that, due to the size of the country, export capacity is what must balance what is imported from abroad.
“We have a poison in the exchange delay”, he reflected. He defined it as “dangerous” and called for “learning from history and what the economic crisis of the 90s meant.”
“I know that the economy is complicated and we have to maintain balance, but I don’t say anything I say with a critical sense. I say that we learn from the history we have lived and the cost that the crisis of 90 meant for us,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
