The president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, was harsh with the government during the anniversary of the Communist Party and referred directly to the Minister of Social Development, Martín Lema, with whom he had a crossover last week, and described him as “the irascible minister and said he “lives in Narnia”. Minutes later he insisted: “In Narnia the work is better.”
Pereira hit on the increase in child poverty and indicated that “the most powerful Uruguayans grew US$ 3 billion” per year since the government led by Luis Lacalle Pou took office.
She also charged against the educational reform, about which she stated: “At this time our teachers do not know what education will be next year, it is a national shame. When we say it, they get angry, they get super angry.” At another point he mentioned the increase in homicides and criticized how the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the megaarch Sebastián Marset, who was imprisoned in Dubai for having used a false passport, was managed.
He also ironically referred to those who accuse them of having a de facto association with the PIT-CNT, calling them FA-PIT —one of the main promoters of the term is the nationalist senator Graciela Bianchi—. “Putting on FA-PIT makes them happy, it gives them an unstoppable dose of clonazepam. It makes them happy, it motivates them infinitely,” she quipped.
In addition, he referred to the promises made by President Lacalle Pou in the electoral campaign. “They are not going to reach half of the houses they promised (…) In order to get there, they lie to people (…) They promised not to increase fuel prices, but I’m not even talking about that, because anyone who has gone to a pump knows that the price of gasoline in relation to what it cost is an assault,” he said.
But at that point, he shared the blame with the productive sector, which although it is the one who pays for the increase, “they don’t complain as much as in the FA governments, but it hurts them just the same.” “When the international prices of soybeans and meat go down, I don’t want to tell you how bad they are going to be, simply for being silent at a time when the protest should be part of the movement,” he warned.
“To the joy of the Uruguayans, they are leaving”
Pereira shared his forecast for the 2024 presidential elections and recalled the phrase of the leader of the Open Cabildo, Guido Manini Ríos, to the former white candidate Alberto Volonté on the night of the referendum for the law of urgent consideration: “Any mistake we lose,” Pereira recalled. although he attributed the phrase to Volonté.
“I think that Volonté is a good political analyst and that they are leaving, they are leaving. To the joy of the Uruguayans they are leaving, they came for a short time,” cheered Pereira. In any case, he asked for self-criticism and recalled that, in previous stages, perhaps the militants were not listened to or “he went down to talk to the productive sector in the interior of the country.”
