This Saturday, July 23, the National Congress of Blacksmithing was held, under the slogan: “The force of the government”, with the participation of government officials and legislators from the sector.
In this framework, the nationalist sector issued a statement in which it states that its representatives “have been in the front row, as the backbone of the National Party demands, in defense and support of the coalition government headed by the president of the Republic Luis Lacalle Pou”.
Later, the statement highlights that in the face of the enormous uncertainties and difficulties resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the government “protected the health of Uruguayans and the national economy, with a notable vaccination plan, investment in social policies and maintenance of economic activity and sources of work, resisting the proposals that hastily and opportunistically emerged from the opposition of ‘mandatory quarantine’ and ‘universal basic income’, which would have led the country down paths towards failure as demonstrates the experience of nations that traveled similar paths.”
El Herrerismo also states that the government was an “example” in handling the pandemic, but also with “achievements in the economy, exports of national production and employment that have grown to pre-pandemic levels, social policies have had as its center not to forget any compatriot on the side of the road, and in terms of security, the numbers of thefts, robberies and cattle rustling have fallen, and the fight against drug trafficking has hardened.
Freedom, peace and stability
On the other hand, the white sector states that “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine added difficulties due to its consequences in terms of rising energy and food prices, and inflationary trends worldwide.”
The statement highlights that, despite this, the government “has been able to manage the situation within a framework of stability of the value of the national currency, of the international reserves of the Central Bank, of inflation control, without resorting to more taxes, with increases in tariffs below the CPI and for fuels below the increase in oil”.
“All of this within a framework of individual freedom, social peace and institutional stability, which position our country as an exception in the region,” highlights Herrerismo.
It also states: “We are convinced that we are traveling freely and responsibly along the path that leads to improving the lives of Uruguayans.”
The herreristas state that “reality has flatly denied, time and time again, each of the stories with which the opposition of the Broad Front and the PIT-CNT has tried to question the government’s policies and put spokes in the wheel of the management” .
In this sense, the declaration states that as an “inventory” it is enough to remember the “predictions of catastrophes such as: ‘the coalition is going to break up’, ‘there are no vaccines, no vaccination plan’, ‘the CTIs are leaving to saturate’, ‘avoidable deaths’, ‘negative consequences of the LUC’, ‘scarcity and hunger’”.
Second half of the term
On the other hand, Herrerismo indicates that it faces the second half of the government period redoubling its efforts to “defend and promote the action of the national government, with the prosperity of Uruguayans as the main objective.”
They assure that “this is demonstrated by the salary agreements reached with COFE, the education unions and the police, the advances in seeking to open new markets and the improvement of the conditions to place the work of Uruguayans abroad, the commitment so that the growth of the economy is reflected in the reduction of personal income tax and retirement tax starting next year, and the regularization program of settlements”.
