The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, convened in the last few hours the entire leadership of the multicolored coalition and the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, to talk about their intentions to join Uruguay to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Trans-Pacific Partnership , TPP, in English).
This liberal economic alliance has as members the 12 economies of the Pacific Rim (Indonesia, Australia, Brunei, China, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea , Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam), but also to other nations such as Brunei, Canada, Chile, Peru and the United States. The latter withdrew from the agreement during the presidency of Donald Trump.
Lacalle Pou seeks to reach a common ground so that there is not much disagreement, both within the coalition and from the Broad Front. However, one of the first disagreements with the FA was when the leftist party wanted access to the negotiation documents, and the Foreign Ministry had responded that they were of a “reserved” nature.
according to the newspaper The countryIn addition to Fernando Pereira, Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo arrived at Torre Ejecutiva until around noon; the Minister of the Environment and leader of the Ciudadanos Colorado sector, Adrián Peña; the Minister of Labor and President of the Independent Party, Pablo Mieres; the president of the House of Representatives, the Colorado Ope Pasquet; the president of the National Party, Pablo Iturralde; and the senator and president of Cabildo Abierto, Guillermo Domenech.
