The former president of the Republic sowed a blanket of doubts based on the non-obligatory nature of the elections.
He former president of the Republic, Jose Mujicaslipped the possibility that militants of the National Party (PN) They will vote internally for the mayor of Montevideo on leave and presidential pre-candidate for the Broad Front (FA)Carolina Cosse, as an electoral strategy.
Mujica suggested that some members of the coalition’s leading party were able to take advantage of the non-obligatory nature of the electoral process to tip the balance in favor of Cosse in the internal opposition, since they consider her an adversary with less electoral projection at the national level than the former mayor of Canelones. and also a pre-candidate, Yamandú Orsi.
This Sunday, at a press conference, the former president once again regretted the low citizen participation in the elections and said that these “will reach a bursting point” of 40% of the eligible votes. In that sense, he once again requested that the instance be mandatory so that militants from one party cannot interfere in the results of another.
“I think that in the National Party it gave the impression that it is very sung and it seems to me that many people didn’t even care,” he reflected on the inmates. “We never finish defining, if they are internal and the sympathizers have to decide, we would need a much fairer and more controlled regime with the members,” she remarked.
“We have to vote in the Front so that so-and-so leaves”
In this regard, the former head of state said that, based on what he read in the comments of users in a newspaper, prior to the election day, there were whites who said “we have to vote in the Frente (Amplio) so that so-and-so comes out,” in reference to Carolina Cosse.
“And ‘ta, it’s written,” he said. Mujica before adding: “This regime we have is enough for anything.” “Mandatory or controlled, affiliated, something like that. This is neither chicha nor lemonade,” he insisted on the matter.
Source: Ambito
