The deputy and pre-candidate for mayor of Maldonado for him National Party, Rodrigo Blás, highlighted the “positive transformation” of Uruguay after the president’s administration Luis Lacalle Pou and pointed out that, in the campaign for elections 2024, The key is “not only to show the good, but to plan the coming years in the same tone, with ambition and hope.”
In dialogue with Ambit, Blás, who belongs to space Add, highlighted that the presidential candidate Laura Raffo Its main proposal is to “lower the cost of living to people, generating a reduction in certain dead costs”, when referring to an eventual reduction in taxes.
The legislator assured that he sees the PN “firm, strengthened and standing in a government action that is very good” in the face of the elections”, while among the highest management milestones he noted: “Uruguay has a record of people working formally, a low unemployment and all the indices are better than when we took over the government.”
“The objective is being met, but there is still a long way to go, we want more and it is necessary to continue on this path, which shows a more dynamic, more modern Uruguay in which its people progress more. A flat Uruguay was changed for one of development and growth,” he said.
Laura Raffo’s proposal
Although he highlighted that “management is the great basis of Campaign”, The deputy stressed that “there is no campaign without ambition and hope,” which is why he called for “putting our teeth into the things in which a lot has been done, but not everything.”
“The economy It is vigorous, firm and growing. With Raffo We have a great challenge ahead of us, which is to lower the cost of living for people and translate it into better living conditions, modifying productive matrices,” he warned.
Blas pointed out that this can be achieved “by generating a reduction in certain dead costs that are expensive for us”, with the aim that “at the end of the month the people who today have a job and a salary “You can have more in your pocket.”
He questioned the “hypocrisy” of the Frente Amplio
On the other hand, he referred to the criticism of the Wide Front and admitted that “they are part of the political game,” although he questioned “the hypocrisy of raising flags when reality clearly shows that today’s situation is superior to that of 4 years ago” and stated: “My face would fall.” .
Blás assured that “it is an issue of working the story without the coherence that is fundamental in all political activity” and questioned: “I think that when you get home and put your head on the pillow it has to make a noise or bother you quite a bit to know that You walked all day based on a lie. “They are ways of doing politics.”
consulted by him plebiscite that drives the PIT-CNT, He indicated that “not even the president of the FA (Fernando Pereira) knows if he is going to sign” and ruled out approval of the initiative: “I resort to the maturity of the Uruguayan who knows that the reform is not what one dreams of, but it is necessary to have a system that pays and that the new generations have the possibility of retire”. “It is quite outrageous that without another proposal, solution and without having participated because they did not want to, they seek to repeal the reform and lead to a scenario that would be very bad for Uruguay”, he pointed out.
Security and drug trafficking
With respect to security, The deputy maintained that “all the indices are better than when we took office,” recalling that during the FA government “it was a country with insecurity on the rise” and stated: “It is a great achievement that is made through the change of laws and support for police activity.”
When asked about the fight against drug trafficking and the impossibility of the return of the DEA, He assured: “We are trying to reconstruct a wrong path by the FA government that led to the departure of an international and professional agency that has extensive knowledge of the fight against drug trafficking.”
“We have to continue showing that our firm decision is to combat the narco in the big and in the small. Now we have been closing mouths of base paste and seizing drugs, giving signs that we are returning to a firm path of fighting,” he indicated.
His view on Maldonado
Finally, from his role as a pre-candidate for mayor, he assured that Maldonado “It’s very good, because it achieved firm growth, development and transformation.” In this regard, he highlighted that “it went from being a place of occasional work to one of permanent work.”
“It is not the result of chance. We are deepening the path of having other productive matrices in addition to the occasional tourism. Today people choose Maldonado to live or do their business because the laws make that desirable,” said Blás.
In the future, he noted that “the challenge is to maintain what is current, continue growing in order and anticipate the future.” “We have to pose challenges in the fight against poverty, improve working conditions and higher quality and reveal ourselves in the face of differences, because in 7 kilometers Maldonado goes from the greatest wealth to the poverty more sunk,” he stated.
Source: Ambito
