The Broad Front issued a statement on the occasion of the End of the Year and the beginning of 2022, through which it makes a brief balance and perspectives.
In its message, the left-wing coalition highlights that its militancy has lived up to historical times, “fulfilling the legacy of 50 years of struggle and collective construction.”
Balance
“Together with the social and union movement, we managed to reach 800 thousand signatures for the people to express themselves on the worst 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), approved in record time, in a pandemic and without due democratic debate,” he says. the FA.
The political force also highlights the fraternal exchange on the critical balance, self-criticism and future prospects for more than a year in each Base Committee, a process that closed with “a Congress held in unity.”
“Previously, we lived a Fermental Base Committee Day, with an increase in the mobilization necessary for a political force such as the Broad Front that is nourished by popular participation,” the message highlights.
The FA remarks that towards the end of the year its democratic and unity principles have been reaffirmed in an open internal election in which more than 130 thousand Frente Amplio voters voted to elect all levels of leadership.
Challenges against neoliberalism
In this sense, the left assures that the year 2022 will be one of great challenges, within the framework of the application of a neoliberal model that “goes against the great majority, hits the most humble with force, which among other aspects, increases the repression of workers, applies a process of judicialization of politics, bet on the dismantling or privatization of public companies, a government that handed over the port of Montevideo to a multinational, continues with salary reductions and has a retirement reform project in the pipeline “.
They emphasize that in this context, the referendum will be held on March 27. “In which we will say ‘Yes’ to reaffirm democratic Uruguay, that of public companies that of public education, which fights for equality to advance rights.”
The declaration is signed by the coordinators Ricardo Ehrlich and María Jossé Rodríguez.
