Jose Mujica urged Yamandu Orsi already Carolina Cosse that, if he wins the general elections in October, he will donate part of his salary as president to finance social housing.
The former president also suggested that they pressure the leaders of an eventual government of the Wide Front to also have part of their salary for that plan.
“Let him start by putting in a good part of his salary, let him not do like I did when I put in 80%, but let him grab all the trusted bureaucracy and force him to put in at least 10% so that they can put into a plan for housing,” said Mujica during an FA event in La Teja.
“If the president is from Wide Front I’m going to ask you not to forget about the poor gurises, about the broken families, where a mother is left stranded with her children and they live in a dilapidated ranch,” added the former president who donated part of his salary when he governed (2010-2015). for him Plan Together.
Mujica defended that Orsi or Cosse urge their teams to also donate part of their salaries if they reach the Executive so that it does not happen to them like him, who had support: “At the Government House, no one came to tell me ‘I’ll contribute’, because the most sensitive organ is the pocket, not the heart,” he said.
The leader of the FA raised the proposal with a strategic vision since he recognized that the creation of a fund of this type will not solve the problems of access to housing suffered by the most disadvantaged population in the country. Uruguaybut it will give the eventual president “the moral right to grab those who can the most by the neck.”
On Monday, Cosse met with several housing cooperatives and proposed the creation of a National Housing Board to facilitate access to the middle class as well as populations in settlements or those suffering damage from floods.
Source: Ambito
