The mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, entered the gym of the Stockolmo club with a headband microphone, like television presenters, and applauded the militant bar of a coordinator of the Broad Front (FA) who had been installed with posters to the bottom.
She entered with a standing ovation and crossed the sports center to the stage in front, where the front page of the left-wing coalition was gathered –with the presence of Yamandú Orsi from the Canary Islands and the president of the FA, Fernando Pereira– and the mayor’s office.
The communal chief was the only speaker in an act announced to the four winds by the mayor and from the structure of the Front. It was the date chosen to launch plan B for cleaning and sanitation, demanding the “No” of the white councilors and the two red ones who are not Citizens. Cosse spoke for half an hour between applause for each projected measure and ended with a standing ovation, with shouts of “Carolina” that emerged from the stands.
from that staging that annoyed the opposition and even drew attention in their own ranksthe commune undertook to carry out the sanitation works in the Mataperros stream –contemplated in the shipwrecked IDB credit–, which is part of the Central Railroad route. Cosse pointed out that they would start “from scratch with the IDB”, which will take “a few months”. “What matters to us is that the works reach the people as soon as possible,” he said.
One of the strongest announcements was that of a new tax on large companies. “We are going to send a project to the Departmental Board to generate a new income that companies that are large generators of waste will have to pay”he exclaimed, and received a standing ovation.
That will allow for “more funds” to contribute to the environment, and “it will be an incentive for companies to generate less waste, and to join circular economy plans, which is what we want,” he said. On the other hand, he pointed out that in some cases there is “great corporate irresponsibility.” “They will be fined according to the damage they are doing to the environment,” promised Cosse.
Leonardo Carreno
Mayor Carolina Cosse greets those present at the announcement act
“This project was not a shopping list, it is a new system,” he defended, after the coalition mayors refused the IDB loan days ago. According to the new project, the mayor will enter the housing cooperatives to collect the waste, and thus gradually remove the containers from the streets.”This is going to have a very visible consequence in urban cleaning, and in security”, assured the hierarch.
The frustrated loan of US$ 70 million was heading to be the strongest investment in the period. The project required two thirds in the Departmental Board for indebting five administrations. Only two votes from Citizens joined the Broad Front, and the capital’s ruling party lacked a support for the plan to prosper.
The opposition had demanded in the negotiations greater investment for sanitation works. From the beginning Cosse argued that the commune was forced to sacrifice this type of project since the Executive Power did not lend its endorsement to increase the authorized figure.
The text discussed weeks ago in the Departmental Board consisted of some US$40 million for cleaning measures, including the installation of new containers, the commitment to indoor bins in neighborhoods such as Carrasco, Malvín and Lezica and the construction of a new semi-automatic sorting plant.
