The mayor of Durazno, Carmelo Vidalinparticipated this Friday in a meeting of Popular Participation Movement (MPP) in Florida together with the mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, and former president José Mujica.
“Thank you for inviting me,” the nationalist mayor told the former president. Mujica replied that “you have to open your head”, he confirmed The Observer.
Mujica said in an informal chat with Vidalín that “there are many people who have to get rid of the bucket in this country”
Vidalín hugged Orsi and greeted militants from the Frente Amplio sector.
Delgado’s candidacy
The white mayor referred to the controversy over his public request that the current secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, be a presidential candidate for the National Party. the white senator Sebastian da Silva He went out to the intersection and said that President Luis Lacalle Pou “must be quite upset” with that request. Also in the last week he treated him as “alternate senator”.
During this meeting he spoke again about Da Silva: “I was struck by the fact that the senator who belongs to Espacio 40 has given his opinion in a different sector than Aire Fresco. When we made the exhibition presenting Álvaro Delgado, we said: ‘These are not political times. But it is a good thing that from now on, taking off our mask, that we say where we are standing’. It was thought over.”
Regarding Delgado’s candidacy, he added: “Today I met a friend who was reading a Bible verse to me, who said all things have their time. It may not yet be a time for strategies. And if there are colleagues who have desires, dreams and It is logical that they have aspirations and it would be a good thing for them to express it.When we raised this possibility that Álvaro Delgado represents us, we said: ‘If there is someone who does not agree, raise your hand’. I did not see raised hands. I did see hands clapping.”
