The presidential candidate of the Frente Amplio pointed out that there are two ways for “a strong State” and launched: “One, in the speeches; another, in the territory.”
The mayor of Montevideo on leave and presidential pre-candidate for the Frente Amplio, Carolina Cosse, He ironized about the president’s sayings Luis Lacalle Pou in Argentina about “a strong State” and noted: “When the elections approach, it seems that all parties are progressive.”
Cosse was thus in line with the criticism of his internal rival, Yamandu Orsi, who linked freedom with state presence and valued “the recipe of Uruguay”, by pointing out that “without social cohesion there is no possibility of enjoying individual freedom.”
Regarding Lacalle Pou’s statements at the libertarian summit in the neighboring country, Cosse said: “They talk about the importance of strengthening the State and I think it is very good. “I celebrate the coincidence.” However, the FA pre-candidate criticized the presidential administration and stated: “There are two ways for there to be a Strong state. One, in the speeches; another, in the territory”.
“I agree that the role of the State is closely linked to freedom. Freedom is having a nearby picnic area? No. “Doesn’t freedom mean having resources so that each family can eat at home?” he asked the militancy during an event in Cologne.
Orsi accused Lacalle Pou: “In the facts I have seen the opposite”
In this way, the FA closed ranks, since cosse joined the criticism of Orsi, who admitted that “he had never agreed so much with the president,” but chimed: “I would like what he proposed in the speech to the outside, which was actually internal, to be carried out in practice.”
“The State has withdrawn from a lot of places, fundamentally where people need it most,” he questioned and pointed out that the presidential administration “goes against the grain of his speech.”
Regarding the proposal of Lacalle Pou, the former mayor of cannelloni stated: “It is not more State or less State, it is what type of state we want. I think it’s a good thing that from a discursive point of view the president stands where he stands. Now, in reality I have seen the opposite.”
Source: Ambito
