“We are the co-government of the coming Uruguay”. This is how the candidate of the Colorado Party, Andrés Ojeda, finished his speech, after accepting that he had not gone to the second round and, in some way, inviting Álvaro Delgado, of the National Party (which did go to the second round) to form a co-government between the two. forces.
“Thank you all for the incredible vote that the Colorado Party had,” said Ojeda at the Hilton hotel in front of a few hundred militants, and stressed that the objectives were “to renew a historic Colorado Party that had to reach the 21st century with all the power” and, in parallel, be a relevant actor in the right-wing coalition.
The insinuations about co-government did not go down well with his coalition partners. One of the first to react was the Minister of Labor (and former Independent Party candidate), Pablo Mieres. In an interview with Arriba Gente (Channel 10) he stated that “those statements by Ojeda are very unfortunate,” as well as that the lawyer “does not understand the logic of the coalition.”
Not leaving things there, Mieres was interviewed by El País and added: “Let him declare whatever he wants, whatever is sung to him, that the reality is different, very different,” he expressed.
Ojeda’s new (wrong) way of doing politics?
Mieres stressed to Ojeda that, to beat the Frente Amplio in the runoff, “everyone’s contribution is needed,” because “it is a quantitative and qualitative phenomenon,” unlike Ojeda’s position, which seems to give relevance only to the PN and to the PC.
“That it is the new way of doing politics is one of the worst ways of doing politics. It seems to me that he is very poorly advised and forgets that, for example, more or less half of the difference between the FA and the coalition are votes from the PI and the other half from CA,” he expressed.
“I would say that you better check your statements, and I am sure that they do not represent the PC“, Mieres continued, adding that Ojeda “is deeply wrong” and he imagines that, in the short term, “they will make him see it.”
Another who reacted negatively to Ojeda was the current vice president, Beatriz Argimón, who emphatically denied that the PN is in line with the idea of “co-government” suggested by Ojeda, according to her statements to 970 Noticias (Radio Universal) in the past. Monday.
“Without a doubt, the correlation of forces changed; Therefore, I would not talk about co-government. That is handled from another perspective, what it obviously has is greater weight due to the flow it managed to obtain, regardless of the fact that the PN is the one that leads this coalition again,” he added.
For his part, Pedro Bordaberry, the best voted within the PC, also tried to qualify the statements by highlighting that, in his opinion, we must “give space” to the smaller coalitionist parties because they are “fundamental” in the assembly.
