The president-elect of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, affirmed in dialogue with The Observer that “the court is arrowed” and that “the private ones have a look for a quite particular side”after the recent controversies over publicity and acts in favor of the referendum against 135 articles of the law of urgent consideration (LUC).
This Wednesday the promoters of the referendum reported that the Administrative Commission of the Official Field (CAFO) denied their request to hold an act on March 12 at the Centennial Stadium, with the performance of national artists and the reading of a proclamation in the Tribune Olympic. Days before, the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) had declared prohibited the entry of any “political content” to the meeting between Uruguay and Venezuela for the Qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup.
This Thursday the National Union of Workers and Transport Workers (Unott) denounced the withdrawal of advertising in favor of the pink vote by the Central Agency company, against which it attacked for committing a “serious act” that “explicitly restricts the syndical freedom”. In addition, this week the Government of Paysandú also urged not to bring proselytizing references to the Carnival parades.
“They are nervous,” criticized the president-elect of the Broad Front, who listed different aspects of the LUC that “he is brave to explain.” “It’s brave to explain why gasoline doesn’t go up more if the Import Parity Price indicates that. news,” he listed.
“When such unintelligible measures are taken, let their consciences take over,” he declared. Regarding the reference that the cases of CAFO, AUF and Central Agency occurred at the request of private companies in their right, he replied: “They are private, but look that they have done things in the Centenario Stadium. The Wanderers stadium is also private . That the court is arrowed, it is arrowed. Now there is a problem, and that is that the arrow of the town is arrowed to another side”.
“In a democratic country, for a CAFO to say no to a show organization because it wants to finance a Yes campaign: what is the difference with a musician who wants to donate to Aldeas Infantiles? Why is it wrong to make a show that finances a campaign? Why does CAFO take a position if it can lend them to everyone? What happens is that it is angry to fill the Centenario Stadium with people in favor of No, “said the former president of the PIT-CNT.
The agreement that CAFO maintains with the Municipality of Montevideo establishes that the entity can assign the facilities “at the times and to the institutions or persons it deems convenient, without political or religious affiliation being an obstacle.”
