He presidential candidate of the Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, I claim to “do intelligence” to strengthen the public safety in the country, thus addressing one of the main axes of the electoral campaign.
“We have a border that is a sieve and the government admits it,” Orsi warned about the problem, thus paraphrasing the recent statements of the Minister of National Defense, Armando Castaingdebat.
During a press conference in Thirty Three along with his vice presidential candidate, Carolina Cosse, he former mayor of Canelones He called for “a series of proposals that include repression, prevention, participation at the social level in the neighborhoods and also intelligence work, because this cannot be resolved without intelligence work.”
Along these lines, he was critical of the government’s actions in the matter of security He added: “We have a border that is a sieve, an airspace that is not controlled and a territorial sea that is quite neglected.” For this reason, he asked to “deepen and think in the medium and long term.”
Cosse said that “people live in fear”
Taking the floor, Cosse considered that the approach in public safety must include “a lot of teamwork, inter-institutional and with the neighborhoods,” and then warns: “People in many neighborhoods of the Uruguay, It doesn’t matter if it’s the metropolitan area or not, she lives in fear.”
“There are meetings that do not want to take place after five or six in the afternoon because they are afraid,” he said, echoing the people’s complaints and concluded: “Uruguayans do not deserve to live like this.”
Security, the axis of the campaign
The FA formula focused this Saturday on public safety, one of the axes of the campaign and which 47% of Uruguayans consider to be the main problem in the country, according to surveys, while companies that are dedicated to providing security services They had a 4.8% increase in their sales, which contrasts with the services sector in general.
Faced with this reality, the Open Council candidate, Guido Manini Ríos, He proposed declaring a state of emergency on the matter for 120 days and, despite allegedly having opposition support, he was unable to get the government to take up the initiative.
Manini Ríos even presented 12 measures related to the fight against insecurity, warning that, if the current trend continues, 200 more homicides will be recorded by March 2025. On this point, Orsi had expressed agreement to put together “minimum agreed strategies” and observed: “Something has to be done and it has to be done now, not wait for the elections”.
Source: Ambito
