He chose to participate in Guillermo Rodríguez’s lists and proposed to Minister José Luis Falero that he move from railway advisor to hydrography advisor.
When the current multicoloured government took office, the nationalist Napoleón Gardiol obtained a political position: he was appointed railway advisor to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP). Now “I proposed to the minister (Falero) a different alternative: to work in Hydrography in the department.”
He informed EL ECO about this and added: “There are many things to do in the department.” In the coastal area, “working on the marinas and yacht care, not only from a tourist point of view but also in terms of maintenance.”
He visited the Ercna in Carmelo and toured the facilities with the director of the institution, Silvia Marchelli. “I really didn’t know it was so big and we can achieve many things.” He sees in the change of department within the MTOP “the possibility of giving a hand to the National Director of Hydrography” (Marcos Paolini), working “from the Colonia department.”
Political career
In 1985 he became a departmental councillor for the Colorado Party, then moved to the nationalist ranks and continued as a departmental councillor for five years. He was substitute for Mayor Carlos Moreira and at the end of the last government period, he was in charge of the executive during Moreira’s leave of absence. Gardiol retired to be re-elected as mayor.
At the party level, after the internal elections, he did not make an agreement with María de Lima and Ricardo Planchón, but with Guillermo Rodríguez. The intention was to be the first substitute for the deputyship and the mayorship of Colonia for the Moreirism.
