The movement of rural businessmen, Un Solo Uruguay (USU) distances itself even further from the government of Luis Lacalle Pou by refusing to give its support to the social security reform promoted by the coalition government.
“It seems necessary to us, it seems essential to us to make a reform. We don’t think this is good,” USU spokesman Julián Cabrera told the press, who believes that “the same vices continue to be repeated; what we are dealing with is a longer patch, ”he added in statements released by Underlined.
For the organization that brings together agricultural industrialists, the main problem is “the little responsibility with which money is handled.”
More disagreements with the government
One Uruguay has been moving away from the government for a long time, despite the fact that many of its leaders were in agreement with its proposals when Lacalle Pou was a presidential candidate.
Last April, Guillermo Franchi, another spokesman for the movement, said that with this government “You cannot even have the opportunity to discuss” and that they had not received a response to “any proposal” that they made. There wasn’t even “a negative response; It does not seem to us that we continue to insist on the possibility of requesting meetings if what the movement proposes is not even answered”.
During the previous government, of the Frente Amplio government Tabaré Vázquez, at least they were seen as a kind of opposition and, at least, they managed to throw “all the arguments we had on the table”. Although there were not “many possibilities for direct exchange, except for that work table, we had a series of exchanges through communications and social networks.”
However, “with this government, if things will be different, that we don’t even have the possibility of discussing, nor the possibility of exchange, because if none of the proposals that the movement has presented are answered, it is very difficult, there is an interlocutor from the opposite side”, he expressed.
Now in October, USU questions the Lacalle government’s fuel pricing system, emphasizing the successive increases in gasoil (diesel) and its impact on agricultural production. “The government changed, but the policy did not change, regarding the issue of addressing fuels, it has always been the same, nothing more than a collection office,” said Cabrera.
