The presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio invited society to “speak with maturity” about the problem of violence.
He presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Yamandú Orsicalled on political parties not to “trivialize” the discussion on public securityand invited Uruguayan society to address this problem and talk about the issue “with maturity.”
Within the framework of a party event held in the Montevideo neighborhood of Tip of Railsthe former mayor of cannelloni He assured this Sunday at a press conference that the issue of unsafety It is not a “question of percentages”, but it is a problem that persists.
“We can discuss the percentages of thefts, robberies, homicides, here it is not a question of percentages,” said the former Canarian leader who indicated that so far this year there have already been eight children injured by firearms.
“We cannot naturalize that schools are associated with shootings”
“The truth is, you can make all the speeches you want talking about how good we are, but we can never naturalize that school doors are associated with shootings or that those injured in a shooting are gurises,” he launched in reference to recent statements of the President Luis Lacalle Pouwho stated that crime rates had improved on a percentage level.
In that sense, Orsi understands that “we must question ourselves as a society” regarding daily violence, and “not only as political parties or as a government.”
“We must speak maturely and seriously about these things, not trivialize the discussion, not trivialize it, and not stop at pointing the finger at the other (saying) it’s your fault,” he insisted.
The favorite to win the internal Broad Front according to various surveys understands that the State should occupy the spaces in the neighborhoods through its institutions and not “retreat” from them. “It’s not just a matter of Policewhich is also important, also an issue of access to Justice and intelligence.”
Asked if the current government “did little” in terms of security, the FA politician stated that it was not “a matter of much or little” but of the “effectiveness” of the measures that were taken. “He has been more concerned with finding the culprits on the other side than with sinking his teeth into it,” he asserted.
Source: Ambito
