The ruling party candidates seek to open a rift in the Broad Front facing the elections 2024, After the latest differences in the matter of economic policy, pointing out that the fight is “due to ideological problems” and arguing that the moderate sector of the opposition should “fall into line.”
During his campaign tour this Friday, the candidate of the National Party, Alvaro Delgado, He considered that in the FA “there are two economic teams fighting each other over ideological problems,” referring to the disagreement between the economist Gabriel Oddone and the party president, Fernando Pereira.
After several days in which the axis of the campaign was the security, The coalition is trying to put the economy in its place in this way, and Delgado made this clear. “On the economic level, an issue that is being debated today, especially in the opposition, about what line to take, I feel tremendously proud to have this team in the government,” said Delgado. former Secretary of the Presidency.
Among the achievements, he mentioned the Minister of Economy and Finance, Azucena Arbeleche, and recalled that “in 2019 we had a deteriorated economy, without investment and destroying jobs, there were five crises that cost us 4.5 billion dollars and this economic team not only led to Uruguay, but it came out better.”
He also dedicated a paragraph to his eventual head of the MEF. “I am proud to announce a team for the next government and to have Diego Labat as future Minister of Economy.”
Ojeda spoke of moderation and alignments
The same was said by the Colorado Party candidate, Andrés Ojeda, who considered that “the counterpoint between Pereira and Oddone” for the salary policy of an eventual Frente Amplio government “shows that beyond what they want to show us a moderate Orsi and Oddone, whoever is there will fulfill the program of the “Broad Front”.
“The program is not the same as Oddone’s opinion and that is evident. Orsi himself will have to comply with the program, even if it is not moderate as he might pretend,” said Ojeda and reviewed that the president of the FA, Fernando Pereira “He marked the field strongly” to the economist.
“I think there will be a single economic team and Oddone is going to have to line up “Whether or not Pereira is in a position to be the Minister of Economy, I think that was the clear and direct message: the Frente rules here, the supporters rule. And whoever does not understand that cannot be here,” said the Colorado leader.
Mieres questioned the Frente Amplio’s “lack of clear positions”
In turn, the Independent Party (PI) candidate, Pablo Mieres, He pointed out from his X account that “the lack of clear positions of the Broad Front on key issues is increasingly evident.”
“The lack of position and differences in education, plebiscites and social security, Now, nothing less than economic policy is added,” Mieres questioned, after which he concluded: “And they say they are prepared to govern.”
The one who has not yet spoken publicly was the Open Council candidate, Guido Manini Ríos, with an agenda more based on public safety, but which also launched in recent days economic proposals linked to strengthening the Uruguayan middle class.
Source: Ambito
