Deputies against deputies. Mayors who support a mayor of another party. Leaders who face each other over the trial of a rebellious mayor. In recent days, that saying of “white thing” to refer to the, many times, fratricidal struggles within the National Party, sounded again after a series of events in which reproaches and assorted insults were at the order. in the old community.
“You are daring, you have no shame. You have no right to do what you said.”launched the deputy Álvaro Viviano (For the Homeland) to his peer and co-religionist Rodrigo Goñi on Tuesday 5, verbalizing the rupture of the National Party bench in the Lower House.
Things heated up when deputy Goñi (Space 40) –coordinator of the caucus– announced to his colleagues from all parties that this year his place would be occupied by Pedro Jisdonian (Aire Fresco). Bad idea. Immediately, Viviano maintained that this place corresponded to him since, according to what he said, there was a verbal agreement by which that responsibility would fall on the non-Lacallist white minority. “It was sultry, the air was cut off,” he told The Observer one of the meeting participants.
Then came the “bold” launched by Viviano and, later, the breakdown of the internal coordination of the National Party. Now, the majority of the white deputies, the Lacallistas, will decide on the one hand what they do in the chamber and, on the other hand, there will be the remaining eight who belong to the National Alliance, Por la Patria and sartorialism in disarray.
It seems that that Tuesday the stars of the division were aligned on the head of the nationalists. Later, the white mayor Juan López caused considerable trouble in Oribe’s party when he gave the vote that was missing to the mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, to approve a US $44 million trust fund for works in the department.
The whites returned to their old ways and the inscription on the party shield that says “The union will make us strong” continues to be a promise.
“I don’t know if tomorrow I don’t appear buoyant in the Las Piedras stream,” the mayor declared to the program Así nos va de radio Carve after receiving niceties such as “poor devil” and “mercenary” from his co-religionists. “He no longer belongs to the National Party,” said the president of the white board, Pablo Iturralde. But not everyone agreed with the “express trial” of the seat with whom, according to Iturralde, the resignation had been agreed. But then the mayor changed his mind and Iturralde was forced to apologize via Zoom to his fellow board members for not having duly reported the events, and assured that no expulsion had been decreed. While a process with “all the guarantees” is arranged, the unexpectedly famous López remains in the limbo of the white sky
temptations
And as if that were not enough, the decision of the Frente Amplio mayor Orsi to go out and look for a saving vote in another party, was defended by the nationalist communal chief of Durazno, Carmelo Vidalín, who, mischievous as usual, asked a journalist: “Do you think that what Orsi did I haven’t done?”
Vidalin said that “tempted” aediles “on several occasions”, I ask if there was “some mayor who has not done it”, and if at the level of the Executive Power this maneuver “has not been carried out”.
“I’ve done it too, we’ve all done it”he affirmed, placing himself at a great distance from, for example, Senator Sebastián Da Silva who accused the Canarian mayor of “buying joint votes” and Deputy Alfonso Lereté who said that the Frente Amplio communal chief “dragged himself in the mud.”
For his part, the former white mayor of Tacuarembó Eber da Rosa tweeted: “Totally agree with what Mayor Vidalín said regarding the episode of the Wilsonian mayor of Canelones and what he voted for. Lack of knowledge of the departmental realities of white leaders of Montevideo”.
These differences are very different from those struggles at the beginning of the 20th century that for decades marginalized the National Party to the role of recurring opponent of the Colorado Party. They also have little to do with the fights between “ethical” and “corrupt” that in 1999 plunged whites into the worst vote in their history.
But, more timidly, the whites returned to their old ways and the inscription on the party shield that says “The union will make us strong” continues to be a promise.
