The National Plenary of the Broad Front met this Saturday at Huella de Seregni and approved a final document criticizing the lack of answers to various issues: poverty and hunger, price increases, deterioration of the Care System, increase in fuel 48%, and public insecurity.
The Broad Front assures that “Uruguay requires on this issue a space for dialogue that addresses in depth the social transformations that our country is experiencing, which require a multidimensional approach that allows establishing at the same time short-term measures to improve security devices and social, economic and cultural structural changes.
Below, we reproduce the statement in full and verbatim.
“The coalition government headed by Herrerismo reaches the middle of the period with an ECONOMIC AND SECURITY EMERGENCY.
The prices of the products of the basic basket increase, poverty increases and expressions of hunger appear, there are more people on the street, wages and pensions fall, the benefits of the National Integrated Health System deteriorate profoundly, being its expression more visible the lack of medicines. Fuels have already increased by 48% in two years, impacting the consumption of basic goods and services.
We are witnessing the verification that the country’s security problems cannot be solved with harsh speeches, ineffective measures and political opportunism. On this issue, Uruguay requires a space for dialogue that addresses in depth the social transformations that our country is undergoing, which require a multidimensional approach that allows for the establishment of short-term measures to improve security mechanisms and social, economic and social structural changes at the same time. cultural.
The harsh situation that our country is experiencing with the permanent increase in violence requires maturity and responsibility and, for this reason, once again our political strength is at the service of a space for exchange that allows us to put at the center of our efforts, solutions to a situation that afflicts our society. In addition, at this time of emergency there are no answers for housing problems.
Progress is being made in a process of privatization and weakening of public companies, we lose sovereignty with the delivery of the Port, international politics does not generate commercial or political results. In education, the only obsession of the authorities seems to be attacking the trade unions and the management of the Broad Front governments.
We understand that it is time to listen to the discontent of large sectors of society who live firsthand the consequences of a neoliberal and exclusionary model. The State’s response can never be the path of repression to dissent.
It is possible to identify that the miraculous changes that were promised in the electoral campaign do not translate into concrete results that improve the living conditions of the people, on the contrary, the majority of Uruguayan men and women live in worse conditions, while a small group accumulates 9,000 million dollars as a result of the historic tail hurricane experienced by the raw materials that the country exports.
There are many announcements that materialize very partially, or do not materialize. The great majority of the inaugurations are the works of the Frente Amplio governments. Successful public policies are dismantled and, on the other hand, new ones fail in their design and implementation.
As if this were not enough, the President of the Republic faces the claims of his coalition partners in a government without guidance or concrete plans.
In the face of the economic and security emergency, excuses are not acceptable, it is time to take charge.
At the same time, we particularly highlight the strategic importance of the resolution of the Political Roundtable for the formation of a working group that prepares a proposal for mechanisms to quickly and effectively address serious situations in relation to acts of GBV.
We reject attempts to reinterpret history, building a story that clarifies and justifies the atrocities of State terrorism. The path taken by one part of the government coalition is dangerous for our democracy. We demand memory, truth and justice, and we commit all our efforts to address an ethical debt of the entire Uruguayan society.
Within the framework of the model that fails, the country’s main political force approved in its National Plenary a political plan to develop a profound dialogue with all sectors of society. Once again, we reaffirm our commitment to finding solutions for the construction of public happiness.
NATIONAL PLENARY OF THE BROAD FRONT “CRO. GERMAN GIL”
Montevideo, June 04, 2022.”
