The presidential candidate for the National Party criticized the former president of the Republic for his recent comments.
He presidential candidate for the National Party (PN) Álvaro Delgado accused the former president of the Republic José Mujica of doing “demagoguery” with his proposal that the next president donate 40% of his salary, and that the officials of the Executive power.
Within the framework of the celebrations for the 35 years of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), the former president recalled last Saturday that he donated “80% of the salary” when he was president, but that the rest of the officials of the Broad Front (FA) “they made fools of themselves.” Immediately afterwards, he proposed that whoever is elected as the next head of state, donate “at least 40% of his salary” and his officials the same, to then have the “moral authority” to ask for solidarity .
This Monday, Slim He assured at a press conference that he saw several “demagogues” in his political life, but that he “rarely” observed “a demagoguery of this type,” which “speaks a little of desperation.”
“I would have liked them to have taken care of the money of the Uruguayans”
Slim He went further and pointed out: “I would have liked them to have taken more care of the Uruguayans’ money instead,” in reference to past FA governments. “The truth is, they donated part of their salary to the Raúl Sendic Fundto the Uruguay I don’t know how much it contributed to him,” he insisted.
“If they had really decided to take care of the money of the Uruguayans and not bury 200 million dollars of the regasifier in the Río de la Plata, if they had not thrown away 80 million dollars in a oven in Paysandú that it is rusting and that it will never recover, if they had not defunded Ancap that it had to be recapitalized by almost 700 million dollars because it was going to melt down, if they had not done the ruinous business of Pluna that now they are going to condemn us internationally and the entire society is going to pay more than 200 million dollars, those are the things that change the needle,” concluded the nationalist.
Source: Ambito
