The inevitable proximity of the elections in Uruguay makes the internal begin to generate greater friction, even when the message “outwardly” is that of party unity. In the case of Broad Front, The possible Minister of Economy is one of the points of contention between the sectors of Yamandu Orsi, who leads the voting intention polls, and Carolina Cosse, who is headed to be the running mate of the former mayor of cannelloni in October.
For some time now, a name like that of the eventual head of the Orsi has been heard in Orsi’s campaign. Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF): that of the economist and former partner of CPA Ferrere, Gabriel Odonne. However, among the ranks of Cosse, where Pablo Ferreri As a candidate for the position, this possibility is not very pleasant.
“I cannot hide that he is not the one who, from our point of view, would be the best expression for economic management for a government of the Broad Front”, expressed the secretary general of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU), Juan Castillo, according to the weekly Busqueda. According to the leader of one of the spaces that supports the pre-candidacy of the mayor of Montevideo in use of a license, Oddone is not “the right person to run the program on the left.”
From the most “left” sector of the Frente Amplio, they see the economist as a “neoliberal.” And the fact that CPA Ferrere prepared the technical report that defended the granting of the concession for the container terminal of Port of Montevideo to Katoen Natie —with the participation of Oddone— does not help to relax these suspicions either.
Another aspect that may not be liked in the PCU, particularly, is that the former CPA partner and member of the board of directors of the think tank Ágora opposes the plebiscite against social security reform driven by the PIT-CNT, an initiative that the most radical Frente-Amplista spaces support, but about which Cosse still keeps his opinion to himself.
The crossing from the Orsi campaign
The senator of Popular Participation Movement (MPP) and Orsi campaign coordinator, Alejandro “Pacha” Sánchezwas in charge of answering these questions coming from the ranks of Cosse.
“He says that Juan doesn’t like him very much, it seems. I’m going to call Juan to see why he doesn’t like Oddone so much and he does like Ferreri. They seem to be more or less from the same sector. Neither of them is a communist. “, he expressed, in the Informal Breakfast program.
Furthermore, he said that “economic policy, like security policy, is going to be the responsibility of the entire Broad Front”.
From the sectors that support Orsi – among them, the Progressive Seregnista Conventionwhich had as a reference to Danilo Astori and now to Mario Bergara—, One of the issues that they see as a priority for the next government will be to resolve the high fiscal deficit that the current administration will leave, in a context of low economic growth.
Source: Ambito
