The ex-president Jose Mujica targeted the president Luis Lacalle Pou by assuring that “you can buy a $60,000 motorcycle at a price”, by questioning the leadership’s expenses and warning that there is an “epic lack” in the references of the political parties.
Mujica assured that “those who govern have to have a moral commitment to their people,” during a campaign event for the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) that he led together with the former vice president Lucia Topolansky, where he considered that “the politician has to have to live as the vast majority of Uruguayans, not like the privileged minority.”
Before young militants of the Broad Front, in the neighborhood Dive, He called to “open the eyes” of the people and pointed out: “We have contradictions such as spending billions of dollars on new cars, but there are not 300 million to rescue the gurises and gurisas who are in misery and will be the majority in some years”.
“What society awaits them?” the former president asked himself and added: “It’s not that we don’t have money. We are starting with the leaders immersed in a tropical tranquility as if everything were perfect.”
“We lack epic,” warned Mujica
“We lack epic in the leaders,” Mujica was honest and warned: “They have to start by setting an example because if those who are going to lead the country do not have the soul of solidarity and commitment, “They do not earn the right to put their paw on the necks of those who have money to stop the problem.”
“And we are with a president who buys a $60,000 motorcycle at a price,” he pointed out directly against Lacalle Pou, and then continue: “Or hire veterinarians so that they can take care of the dogs and the people pay for it.”
About your objections to those bills, He clarified that “it is not because the things of the country are going to be paid for” and explained: “It is because those who govern have to have a moral commitment with his people. They cannot be gods, they are going to make mistakes, but they have to have a soul of good faith, of service to their people, because they have to lift their soul.”
For this, the MPP leader maintained that “leaders who are committed” are needed and stated: “Anyone who commits to politics for money must be fired. Or do you have service vocation and you feel joyful about helping people; or dedicate yourself to industry, commerce. “Politics is a passion, not a profession.”
Concern about changes
On the other hand, Mujica pointed out that “we have a mentality full of the past and nostalgia, without looking at what is coming our way,” which he described as “a civilizational change phenomenal, a true revolution for better or worse.”
“The agriculture that is coming does not need people. And we are like taking a nap. Meanwhile, entire banks as we knew them disappear, replaced by machines”, warned about the modifications.
In that sense, he called for generating “an epic and a different commitment to our society” by asserting that “we can expect nothing but from ourselves.” “He capitalism created a society that covered us from credits. It is not a defect of the people, it is a cultural triumph,” warned the former president.
That is why he called for having “other priorities and other discussions with our people” and listed: “If I am going to spend 300 million dollars to rescue the gurises and gurisas, if I have to have other prisons. Prepare young people to think about the world that is coming to us. And for that you have to have moral authority.”
Source: Ambito
