The secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, assured that the next elections mean a “historic challenge” for the National Party. “It is not very common in the history of the country, in this case a government coalition and the National Party leading it, can once again be worthy of the people’s trust and be re-elected. We have to work for that,” he said in the framework of his visit to San José prior to the Youth elections in the party.
For this, he pointed out, the support of young people is invaluable. Asked about his eventual candidacy, he expressed: “2024 is an eternity away (…) We are putting our foot on the accelerator in international insertion, the reform of social security, the generation of investments, of employment, trying to do what needs to be done, which is to improve people’s lives. That’s too important. It will come… the time to talk about the electoral process will come.”
He pointed out that that moment is in the middle of next year. Not before, because “we cannot live in an electoral campaign”. “We already have neighboring countries that are experiencing an electoral campaign. Uruguay has to have a moment to govern and another to think about the electoral process,” she added.
“Today it is not an issue that keeps me awake (being a candidate). Today the issue that keeps me awake is being able to specify several things that are on the table. Then next year we will talk about everything else,” he closed.
He stated that the government was also threatened for defending the vaccination of children under 13 years of age
Judges Marta Gómez Haedo, Marta Alves De Simas and Mónica Bórtoli, ministers of the Civil Court of Appeals of 6to Turn, they were threatened after having revoked the ruling of Judge Alejandro Recarey that suspended vaccination against covid-19 in children under 13 years of age. When asked about it, Delgado explained: “(We) also received some threat (…) It is seen that some people are very intolerant of this.”
In turn, he condemned the act: “I absolutely deplore it, it seems to me that it is intolerable in a democratic society and in full force of the rule of law.”
