“I’m going to wait for the time to come to express myself,” said the presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio.
The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cossestated that he does not know if he will vote for the eventual plebiscite against the social security reform that drives the PIT-CNT facing the elections October, despite the fact that he joined the board of signatures in December of last year.
This Thursday, at a press conference, the Frente Amplista candidate admitted that she has not yet decided whether she will accompany the initiative of the union center, which among other things, proposes the reduction of the retirement age and the abolition of the Pension Savings Fund Administrators (AFAP).
“I signed because the proposal was from PIT-CNT“said the capital’s leader to the press, who understands that the plebiscite is necessary “for the people to decide.” “They are going to have to reach the signatures,” she said in reference to the fact that the union center has not yet reached the signatures of the 10% of the electoral roll, an exclusive requirement by the Electoral Court by April 27, six months before the elections 2024.
Likewise, he pointed out that in the event that the PIT-CNT reaches the number of signatories “a discussion process will begin and when it begins I will participate as another Uruguayan.” As of Tuesday, the union center gathered a little more than 246,000 signatures of the more than 270,000 necessary.
When asked directly whether she will vote or not, cosse She expressed that it was an “important decision” and that she will be “very meticulous” in gathering the information necessary to make a decision.
“It takes me time to take a position, I will wait for the moment to come to express myself and, in the meantime, I will be studying,” he said before adding: “Like all Uruguayans, things take their time, he who rushes, rushes.” .
“Cosse does not even have a position on such a relevant issue”
For his part, the leader of the Independent Party (PI) and Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Mieresassured that the Frente Amplista candidate “does not even have a position on such a relevant issue” and that this “is worrying if she intends to be president in a few months.”
Mieres stated that the statements of cosse “They draw her attention” because “she accuses the government of having no direction,” and yet, she does not have a position taken on the issue.
Source: Ambito
