Former president José Mujica, following his tradition, went to vote early in the morning at the school near his farm, on the outskirts of Montevideo.
The former president of the Republic, Jose Mujicawent to the voting circuit early in the morning, spoke about the need for a change in democracy and in the Parliament and criticized that the electoral campaign did not focus on the agro-export sector.
Mujica is in a wheelchair due to the physical fragility caused by the treatment to defeat the esophageal tumor he had. It is worth remembering that the former president of Broad Front (FA) use a gastric tube.
“Maybe it’s my last vote,” was the first statement of the Broad Front leader before issuing the suffrage. Then, and true to his custom, he spoke to the press at the scene, although it was a shorter contact than usual. “I would stay talking more,” he said when the people assisting him asked him to leave.
“Institutionally, democracy, due to the complexity of modern society, is going to have substantive changes. I see the future that there are going to be several mini governments. It is impossible to summarize all knowledge in 80 types,” he reflected and gave as an example what happened in the COVID-19 pandemic. covid, when the committee of experts advised the Presidency.
Mujica, who admitted to feeling tired and lacking strength from tube feeding, added that “if democracy does not change institutionally, it will be sick.” “It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we’ve invented,” he added, paraphrasing Winston Churchill.
Asked about how he saw the electoral campaign, in which, despite his delicate health, he participated in several events with the presidential candidate. Yamandu Orsi and list 609 of the MPP, Mujica stated that he saw her “a little distracted, worried about what she was going to spend and not what she was going to do.”
“I was impressed by the money that (Andrés) Ojeda spent. He caught my attention because I thought he was white, I had met him with (Laura) Raffo, they had gone to see me in Parliament, he is not very red either, he never spoke about Battle,” he said about the presidential candidate of the Colorado Party (PC).
Mujica also referred to the participation of young people in politics. “It is relative that young people do not care about politics. If young people are not in politics it is because we disgust them,” he said.
Source: Ambito
