Presidential candidate Álvaro Delgado announced that Agustín Iturralde will meet with his white colleagues to determine a joint program.
During his speech, the presidential candidate for the National Partyand an overwhelming winner within the political force, Alvaro Delgadoannounced that his team would meet with his white colleagues on Tuesday to determine a joint program, with the intention of showing unity within the ruling party.
Among the announcements made yesterday by the new presidential candidate are the intentions to carry the flag of unity within the National Party. To this end, he announced that the coordinator of his campaign program, Augustin Iturralde, He would meet with other colleagues within the white sector on Tuesday to reach a common program.
In this way, the pre-candidate would aim to continue the momentum between the internal campaign that ended yesterday and those aimed at the general elections, thus generating greater enthusiasm and impact within the bases of the National Party.
“The unit “It is an asset for winning and governing, we have to be clear about that,” Delgado stressed during his speech where he also announced that Valeria Ripoll was going to be his vice president within the campaign formula. A decision that, contrary to the joint program between the Whites, generated tensions within the party where they even booed the candidate when she was announced by Delgado.
On the other hand, within the framework of Delgado’s intentions to further promote unity and the idea of continuity of the current government, the candidate also announced that the president Luis Lacalle Pouonce his term is over, would accompany the National Party in the Senate.
Little enthusiasm within the National Party
One of the bad news that the ruling party received was the citizen participation in the primaries that, despite not being mandatory, the National Party It was historically one of the most popular in these instances since they began to be implemented.
Thus, the National Party obtained a total of 292,722 votes in these elections, in opposition to a Broad Front which managed to exceed 400,000 votes in these elections, an achievement for the left-wing party.
Source: Ambito
