He plebiscite for the entry into the municipalities that he promoted Citizens failed to prosper for not obtaining the support of the different political parties and the failed initiative began to generate tensions within the Republican Coalition.
After the presidential candidate of the Colorado Party, Robert Silva, question the lack of support and point out that the plebiscite is “non-negotiable” to re-form a coalition, several leaders of the PC itself and the National Party They came out to question his statements.
One of the first to repudiate that position was the PN pre-candidate, Alvaro Delgado, who considered that “if everyone assumes that ‘I’m not going to move on from this’, that’s not the way to start,” regretting the intransigence raised by Silva.
For Delgado, “there is something much bigger, which is that the coalition votes together, has a single program and the historical responsibility of continuing with this course in the government,” he postulated about the course facing the elections. elections 2024 and added: “The rest we sit down, we discuss it, we plan it, we work on it, we negotiate it.”
Along the same lines, the senator and pre-candidate Jorge Gandini He told Telemundo that Silva’s words were “inappropriate” and “inappropriate” and interpreted: “Maybe he didn’t mean that, because it is very strange that he would put a condition with threatening tones in this area in which we have lived together and talked.” .
Gandini spoke of “entanglements” to find out the final text and confided that he was considering signing, but admitted: “Now, after this threat, I don’t feel like it.”
Even the red candidate Gabriel Gurmendez He assured that he will work “to create a new coalition and not to impose non-negotiable conditions that frustrate it.”
Criticism from official mayors and the Frente Amplio
Another white reference to be critical was the mayor of Maldonado, Enrique Antía, who pointed out that Silva “does not have experience of how municipalities work, their autonomy is being violated” and went further by pointing out: “I would like to have a meeting with him to locate him on the map.”
When referring to the author of the initiative, the late senator Adrian Pena, He added: “He made the bill without consulting. The reality that he proposed is not like that for all municipalities, there are specific things. It has to be resolved by law and not by the Constitution.”
From the opposite side, the mayor using her license Montevideo and pre-candidate Frente Amplio, Carolina Cosse, He assured that “the municipalities are free to start carrying out acts of transparency without having to approve a law, it is on the field where the pingos are seen.”
Regarding the FA’s position, he clarified: “A resolution was reached and as a Frente Amplista I am going to do what I always do: stand shoulder to shoulder with my teammates.”
Source: Ambito
