The decline of Mario Bergara in the Frente Amplio is added to the loss of Gustavo Zubía in the Colorado Party. Unknown about what Juan Sartori will do.
Shortly after the final stretch begins towards internal elections that will define the candidates of each party for the presidency of Uruguay, The pre-candidacies begin to be refined in view of the real possibilities and the advantages—or not—that they can contribute to the dispute within the political spaces. The decline of Mario Bergara in it Wide Front It was the most recent and significant, but not the only one.
“We have decided to take a step aside in the pre-candidacy and accompany the pre-candidacy of Yamandu Orsi, based on a political assessment,” Bergara confirmed in the press conference on Wednesday morning, finishing stating a news that had already been speculated for days and that had already been taken for granted since the previous day.
A week ago, there were few who would have bet on the senator declining his direct participation in the internal Broad Front elections, despite the fact that the polls showed him well behind the result he obtained in 2019, within the framework of a very polarized election between Orsi and Carolina Cosse. However, and after sectors of Astorism —Uruguay Assembly— let go of his hand, he finally took a step to the side.
“The objectives that we set for ourselves in the field of contributing to the triumph of Wide Front and strengthen the Seregnista space, today it would be achieved with more feasibility without our pre-candidacy,” explained Bergara, pointing out that “the dynamics of the internal Broad Front has intensified a Polarization, in a context of perception of greater parity between the candidates” that “and hurts the pre-candidacies that we are outside of those two poles.” Potential election results for Seregnista Progressive Call They were not even satisfactory outside of the competition for being the head of the presidential ticket.
Definitions in other spaces
Bergara’s support for Orsi was not the only change in the inmates in recent days: in the Colorado Party, who until yesterday held eight pre-candidacies, the former prosecutor and deputy Gustavo Zubia He also resolved to put aside his presidential aspirations and support Andrés Ojeda, which is emerging as one of the surprises of the June elections, in an apparent resolution against Robert Silva.
“I fear that by not making agreements within the most neighboring sectors from an ideological point of view, Robert Silva could win the pre-candidacy,” Zubía had advanced, pointing out that the former president of the They code “represents a center-left within the party.” “It is the one with which I have the greatest ideological and pragmatic differences,” he explained.
Meanwhile, in the National Party The unknown still remains as to what the senator will do. Juan Sartori. In his case, the definition will be between launching his own candidacy or, in any case, adding his support either to Alvaro Delgado —which leads all the polls by a wide difference in the nationalist internal— or to Laura Raffo, which belongs to the same sector, blacksmithing.
With these options, Sartori met in recent days with both pre-candidates, but postponed his decision: “I still have all the options.” open possibilities. I think that in a very short time, maybe next week or at most two weeks, I will make a definition because it is also important for the entire party and what is happening in the Uruguay knowing how I am going to contribute to this campaign,” he explained at a press conference.
Source: Ambito
