The former legislator of the Broad Front Dario Perez continues to work to build a new sector within the National Party in Maldonadowith the departmental elections of 2025 in sight. Perez told The Observer that There are no clear leaderships in any party to succeed Enrique Antía as mayor of the department, because he cannot be a candidate for the third time in a row, so he sees “a window” to run for mayor in the next elections.
Pérez, deputy until 2020 who left the Front after not voting for the party financing lawannounced his intention to form a new nationalist grouping in an interview with the program Mañana Viva on Radio Viva (96.7 Punta del Este) on May 3.
The 65-year-old ex-Frente Ampista warned that the process to create this sector, which is still no name or number, it will be “light”with the intention of “enjoy political activity”and so far he comes “from meeting to meeting with leaders” of different groups and parties.
He defined the leaders with whom he has spoken to join the sector as “all ordinary people”, with which it shares a characteristic: “We have all been burned with milk, from each place where they come from they have had disappointments, so we do not want to be disappointed again”he stated, adding that this leads to them having a “energy” of “building”.
In day to day Pérez is “testing the ground” to see “how people think” of the departmentand argued that the idea has had “good reception”. “Every day I go out to the street in the afternoon, talking with people from all walks of life that you can imagine. People from the Front, from PERI, from the Colorado Party. It’s like a pre-feasibility study.”expressed the politician, who already militated alongside Antía during the campaign for the referendum for the Law of Urgent Consideration.
When talking about the new group, Pérez remarks three basic postulates: the “Defense of Liberty and the Republic”; the “social justice”because “the countries that are doing well, (there) the gap is not gigantic between poverty and wealth, but the other way around”and the “caring for the environment”because “the world we are leaving is quite complicated”.
