He Mayor of Canelones, Yamandu Orsireceived this Monday another support for his candidacy for the Presidency by the Broad Front (FA) and assured that will resign from his position after Congress, What will be celebrated in December and will officially proclaim the applicants for the interns.
In this way, the group the homeland He joined the already official support of Frente Amplista sectors such as the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) and the Artiguista Slope, in addition to other minor groups within the left. In the case of La Patriada, it is a national group that has not yet formalized its entry into the FA, but is made up of independent Frente Amplistas, as well as former members of the Colorado and National Parties.
After the act – which was held in Montevideo, a detail not insignificant taking into account the tours that Orsi has been doing through the department – the mayor was asked about the date on which he plans to leave office.
“I believe that the decisive date or the key moment will be the FA Congress“, said Orsi in relation to the internal instance of the leftist coalition that will be held in December.
For Orsi, resigning earlier “would imply an act of irresponsibility”, but he considered that once the candidacy for the FA inmate is “formalised” he will have to “step aside”.
Although he made these assessments, the MPP leader recalled that there were “precedences” of “mayors who went to the elections without resigning.”
Orsi affirmed that this was the first act “at the street level” that he has carried out since the MPP Congress proclaimed him as a candidate. “I think we are in campaign. Some names are made explicit, others are not. But Uruguay is a country that is usually in the campaign for much longer than the rest. But the pure and hard campaign starts next year,” he said.
In his speech, the mayor referred to campaign promises, something he insisted on at a press conference. “In the last campaign, very complex things were seen. Like the fact of saying things that are not done later. For example, that taxes, rates were not going to be increased or that the retirement reform was not going to increase the retirement age I think they are strategies to have more adherence but in the end it ends up not saying what is really thought, “he said.
