After knowing the result of the passes elections in Uruguaythe president-elect, Yamandu Orsicontinues to give something to talk about in the region, with the conciliatory speech of just over 11 minutes that he gave on Sunday night. The candidate of Wide Frontthe coalition of small and large left-wing parties in Uruguay that band together under a single flag and a common project, called for unity in his first words as president-elect in front of tens of thousands of coreligionist militants.
In the midst of the excitement over the victory, he recalled that there is another part of the citizens who, that same night, were having a hard time due to the defeat, and invited them to build a better Uruguay with a “positive accumulation” of ideas from across the spectrum that, beyond the political banner, can be good and constructive.
The journalist and political analyst Jairo Stracciawho is part of the El Cronista portal team, participated as a columnist in the popular radio program “Street Dogs”from the radio host Andy Kusnetzoffone of those with the highest rating in Argentina. Straccia began by reflecting on the alternation in power, and saying that the left wins in the runoff.
“It is not only that the name is of indigenous origin, which means ‘he who gives life’, it is not only that he is a history teacher, but what caught my attention the most is that yesterday when he won the election – we We are in our bardo, that some say certain things to others, and that the United States is in its speech of ‘you’re eating the dogs, you’re eating the cats’ – he grabbed and, In an 11-minute speech, he spoke at the heart of his speech about those who lost, and he spoke well of them.”, reflected the communicator.
In the midst of applause, Straccia made a mixture of praise with irony: “Enough, Uruguay, you show me that you have stability, you show me that you don’t have a quilombo with the exchange rate… do you have to shove that thermos of political correctness in my face? ? And the guy, with that Uruguayan tone, talks about how in 40 years of democracy, all militants are important, for solidarity, for fraternity.”
“A France in South America”
For Kusnetzoff, these democratic gestures make Uruguay “a France in South America,” and Straccia extracted the concept of “positive accumulation” that Orsi inserted in his speech, with the idea that “one day one governs, it has been good for a little while.” , another day governs another, it has been a little while since it is good about what the previous one did.”
From an Argentine vision of politics, much more confrontational and more cracked, in the midst of polarizing speeches like Javier’s Milei either Cristina Fernández de KirchnerStraccia assures that seeing that “political correctness” it’s like “from another galaxy different from what is happening in many other places in the world”.
“And just so that we get more fed up (…) remembering the one who lost and focusing your speech on him, it cannot fail to catch your attention in a country like ours (Argentina) where you are seeing if the one who won the election is receiving the call of the other, who is not questioning or denying the results…”, Straccia struck out another section of Orsi’s speech in which he says: “But let us understand, citizens of my political force, and those who accompany us, there is another part of our people who, like us a while ago, today have a different feeling. These people will also have to help us to an increasingly better country. We need them too”.
Kusnetzoff once again praised Uruguayan democracy and Orsi’s approach to victory at the closing of the segment: “It’s beautiful. That generates you. It makes you angry that we are so far from that (…) It really deserves reflection because you realize that there is something that is right and that we have something that is very wrong.. In other words, the crack that was bad, now you can’t even see the other side because we are so far away. and here what Orsi is saying is ‘we need them and we were there until 10 minutes ago, when we were the opposition.’ I think it’s brilliant and that, if we had something like this here, which obviously must be very difficult or impossible, beyond the people who assume with polarizing strategies, we deserve someone like that with that spirit.”
