The national radio and television network for the “Yes” in the referendum against the 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC) was broadcast at 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday, and was starred by the actor César Troncoso, one of the visible faces of the campaign that seeks to repeal such articles.
Below is the text narrated in the video by Troncoso:
I am simply a Uruguayan, and as a Uruguayan being and pain and the restlessness of the people. We all want the best for our own. Sometimes it is difficult to find the way, but for me there is something fundamental: being able to put yourself in the other’s place and do everything possible to not cause them pain or misery. That of not doing to others is not what we don’t like being done to us.
That is why I support this cause, to prevent Uruguay, even with good will, from going back many steps, from going back what we have built in many decades between all of us; what has not been our identity and our rights.
We cannot do it with anger, nor with hatred, we have to base ourselves on the fact that this great little country can and we have to build collective happiness.
Increasing differences and injustices is not the way. There is something that is fundamental, justice must be equal for all. That is why those who govern must not abuse force or the power of communication.
From the beginning of our history and until recently, Uruguayan men and women have achieved great victories together. We have to add, we have to be optimistic, brave, know that this is not a partisan cause. It is not a partisan cause. This is how hundreds of thousands who put their signatures understood it, and many who joined later and who are of all colors.
This cause is for the rights and freedoms of women and men, of all ages, throughout Uruguay, in the cities and in the countryside. There is no need to evoke big words. A simple yes is enough.
Yes to our sensitivity for the national majorities, for those who have to make an effort to make ends meet. Yes for those who work and have worked for a lifetime or are looking for a job, and also Yes for those who undertake, investigate, teach, heal, learn.
A Yes because we are part of this society.
Before voting I invite you to think, to reflect. To really understand what is best for you and for the majority. Because that’s what living in society is all about.
Later, a group of militants contributed different phrases to the spot broadcast on national radio and television.
