The leader and presidential candidate of the Independent Party will leave his position to dedicate himself fully to the electoral campaign.
The Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and presidential candidate for the Independent Party (PI), Pablo Mieresannounced that he will resign from his position on May 2 to dedicate himself fully to the electoral campaign leading up to October.
The leader of the PI, who has been in charge of the portfolio since the arrival of the government of Luis Lacalle Pou to power on March 1, 2020, announced his decision last Wednesday at an event organized by the Semanario Busqueda.
Mieres, who is the only PI presidential candidate for the June 30 elections, is also the only one of the government alliance officials with electoral aspirations who remained in his position.
At the event, Mieres stated without hesitation that the Multicolor Coalitioneither Republican Coalition As he prefers to call it, it must be “reissued” for the next government period given the current situation.
“Later on we will talk about futurology, we are different parties, we have our views and time will tell. Today it is clear that the dilemma that the Uruguay is to continue moving forward with the changes and incorporate others that are pending,” he pointed out in this regard.
The Independent Party intends to take the reins of Mides
Along the same lines, he made known his desire that, in the event that the coalition wins a new period of government, the PI will occupy the Ministry of Social Development (Mides).
“If you tell me where I would like to be, I believe that we should have the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Development, which is for us a fundamental key to the construction of integration,” stated the leader of the social democratic political force.
In March, Mieres assured that the PI is “the left leg of the coalition,” and that the current government administration “is not right-wing,” but rather “center-based.”
Source: Ambito
