The presidential candidate of the Colorado Party wants the former party leader, who has been away from politics, to return “to the field.”
The Colorados renewed their hopes for October and are confident in their chances of entering the runoff, after the first polls following the internal elections showed a drop in National Party (PN) and a growth of Colorado Party (PC) after what the nationalist candidate, Alvaro Delgadochose the former communist militant and former union leader Valeria Ripoll as his running mate.
The surprise of Ripoll’s election did not go down well with the PN, since, according to polls, only 56% of its voters approved her appointment as vice-presidential candidate. Added to this is the recent corruption scandal in Artigaswhich hit the whites hard and ended with the former mayor Pablo Caram convicted and ejected from the northern government.
In recent days, the historic List 15who had supported Gabriel Gurméndez In the internal elections, he added his support to the Colorado presidential candidate Andres Ojedain a symbolic show of unity towards the 2024 elections. “Following the figure of Jorge Batllewe continue to give an example of unity and of how to advance in politics,” Ojeda stressed and added: “We want to win the internal coalition to then beat the Forehead (Broad) in November”.
The adhesion of “the 15” comes after the rumor circulated that the former Colorado leader and former senator, Pedro Bordaberrywas close to returning to politics after closing an alliance with Gurméndez and Tabare Viera to compete together on different lists, but under the sub-slogan “Vamos Uruguay”. Bordaberry had tried to return for the 2019 general elections, but Ernesto Talvi and the Former President Julio Maria Sanguinettiwho had competed in the internal elections, turned down the idea.
Bordaberry would thus lead his List 10, Gurméndez’s List 29 and Viera’s List 2000, with the latter occupying second place on their respective lists. In June of last year, Bordaberry had re-registered his sector Let’s go uruguay within the PC, along with three sublemas.
“Bordaberry has a lot to offer”
“I consider Pedro (Bordaberry) to be a friend, who has a lot to offer and I hope he is on the field in the place where he believes he can help,” Ojeda said last Friday on Radio Monte Carlo.
“Today it is not a utopia to dream of making it to the second round, that is what the polls say, we are clearly growing, we have grown a lot in a very short time,” added Ojeda.
Source: Ambito
