The retired colonel, Arquímedes Cabrera, leader and member of the Cabildo Abierto party, called on his co-religionists to “give a great lesson in civics” using “all the resources of democracy”, alluding to the options that citizens have when going to the polls in the referendum against the 135 articles of the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC).
The ex-military man assured that it is necessary to “say no to the left and set the course for the government (of President Luis Lacalle Pou) with hundreds of thousands of blank votes,” Cabrera would have said according to a publication M24.
Likewise, she took the opportunity to ask for secular education, the elimination of “gender ideology” and the State offices that ensure gender and equality policies, end the welfare of the Ministry of Social Development (Mides), life pensions and the release of the ex-military imprisoned in Domingo Arena for having committed crimes during the dictatorship.
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There are already several militants of the right-wing party who seek to call the electorate to vote blank in the referendum, which will be voted on March 27 and in which people must put a pink ballot to vote for “yes” to the repeal of the 135 articles, or a light blue one to vote for “no”.
Through an audio that would circulate on WhatsApp, indicates the aforementioned media, Cabrera stated that the blank vote is an instrument “to let the government know that we want it to take more distance from the three previous governments of the left.”
