The president of #FrenteAmplio, #FernandoPereiradescribed the senator’s statements as “nonsense” #GracielaBianchi that the left benefits from the less educated population to obtain voters pic.twitter.com/v5zAD8qLZW
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In the last hours, the senator for National Partythe ultraconservative Graciela Bianchifired a series of accusations against the Frente Amplio and the left, ensuring that both the party and that sector of the political spectrum They “benefit” from the population with “less education” to obtain voters.
The legislator (who will renew 5 more years in Parliament) assured that she has “data” that ensures that “Young people with less training are the base of the FAPIT electorate”, a non-existent acronym that she and other actors on the Uruguayan right use to assert that both the Frente Amplio and the PIT-CNT are the same.
“Of course, the most vulnerable sectors (culturally) are those who continue to vote, although they took away the dignity of effort, work, meritocracy, and individual freedom,” the legislator argued.
“That is nonsense,” says Fernando Pereira
The response from the president of the FA, Fernando Pereira, was immediate, and he described it as “folly” such an assertion. “I believe that secular, free, compulsory and democratic schools are what provide opportunities. Teachers do not generate children to be Frente Amplistas, that is nonsense,” he said.
And he added: “Neither do teachers, but they do educate to think independently, to have reflections, to have free thought, and that possibly makes many end up voting for whoever favors them. President Mujica said the other day that democracy has been in place for 40 years: 15 that the Frente Amplio governed and 25 that the Colorados and Whites governed. During the 15 years of the Broad Front, the increase on the pie is 100% and the salary growth is 87% corresponding to the 15 years of the Broad Front, and 13% to the 25 years of the National Party. Why, then, would a worker vote for those whose salary was barely increased?”.
Pereira concluded by reflecting on the FA’s aspiration to reach voters whom they have not been able to win over to their trenches: “People who have social sensitivity vote for the left, and many who have social sensitivity do not vote for it. And we aspire to reach her so that she votes for us, but many times we do not achieve it. And that is a democratic society, one that understands that the difference is made by the vote. The vote is always sovereign; You don’t have to disrespect the voter, you have to respect them. In this case, with almost 90,000 votes, he decided that the Frente Amplio would be the party with the most votes.”
