The presidential candidate Uruguay for him Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, agreed with the president’s words Luis Lacalle Pou in Argentina regarding the need for a “strong State” to have “individual freedom”; but he regretted that “in fact” he did not carry it out.
President Lacalle Pou participated in the Annual Freedom Dinner, organized by the Freedom Foundation in Argentina, and in his speech he referred to “social cohesion” as “the possibility of enjoying individual freedom.” In that sense, he assured that Uruguay has been working on it for a long time, and that “there are things that are in the DNA of our country and no one argues anymore”, among which he highlighted “a strong State”.
About, Orsi He considered that “he had never agreed so much with the president.” At a press conference, and when consulted about it, the Frente Amplista candidate agreed with what was proposed by the president, although he indicated that he would like “what he proposes in the speech outside, that in reality the speech “It was internal, in practice it will be carried out.”
In that sense, the former mayor of cannelloni He deepened that, in his opinion, “the State has withdrawn from a lot of places, fundamentally where people need it most”; so he what he did in his government Lacalle Pou “It goes against the grain of what his speech was.” Likewise, he pointed out that the places from which the State withdrew are those that “others occupy.”
For Orsi, This is an “old discussion.” “It is not more State or less State, it is what type of state we want,” he noted, and concluded: “I think it’s a good thing that from a discursive point of view the president stops where he stops. Now, in reality I have seen the opposite.”
A “strong state” but not big
Lacalle Pou He referred to a “strong State” in his speech at the Annual Freedom Dinner, in which the Argentine president also participated. Javier Milei. There, he assured that this “does not mean a big State.” “Surely it doesn’t have to have much dimension to be strong,” she clarified.
“It means having strong institutions and for this there has to be a clear separation of powers, That is not divorce. There must be a strong democracy and, what I am going to say is not very popular, but we owe it to them Uruguay to the political parties. Without them, democracy is more risky,” said the president; and he wrote: “How difficult it is to enjoy freedom if you live on a ranch and my children do not have a light at the end of the road to strive for. “We have to have a strong State so that the individual can enjoy freedom.”
Regarding his driving style, he noted that “in the first concentric circle, are my values and principles, there are no grays in that”, but then he put in second place “something that is not very fashionable: the government programs, my contract with citizens.”
“The third, and the most difficult to align, is govern for all. I am the president of all Uruguayans, the one who loves me the most and the one who loves me the least. So, how to align values and principles, government program and represent everyone? Obviously it is almost impossible, but at least we have to look for some paths of understanding,” admitted the white reference.
Source: Ambito
