The Open Town Hall Political Table resolved this Monday by majority (not unanimously) continue to integrate the government coalitionsomething that was announced in a public statement by the senator and party leader, Guido Manini Rios.
“The Political Table has decided by majority continue to be part of the coalition in government today. At the same time, it requests the President of the Republic the maximum efforts to consolidate a coalition with truly republican practices,” read Manini. The resolution within the meeting was taken by 13 votes in 16, the remaining 3 voted to leave the party alliance.
The nine-point statement read by the senator also included support for the former Minister of Housing, Irene Moreira, who was asked by the President of the Republic Luis Lacalle Pou to resign, after learning that he had awarded a house to a Cabildo Abierto militant directly, without going through a lottery.
Federico Gutierrez
In the Political Table, 3 members voted in favor of leaving and 13 in favor of staying
“Expressly recognizes the work accomplished in the 3 years at the helm of such an important ministry for so many people. He reiterates that the request for resignation was unjustified and unwise, based on incomplete and erroneous information,” the Cabildo statement said. And he also insists that the decision to remove the minister was made with a “revanchist spirit” that had “no relationship” with the “passivity shown in the face of serious cases that have occurred in the last year in high levels of government or that involve hierarchs of coalition parties.
Despite majority voted to stay in coalitionManini Ríos warned that his party will make a “carefully monitor the state of public security and promote the urgent measures that must be adopted to combat the scourge of crime and drug trafficking“.
He also criticized the operation of the coalition and in particular the leadership of Lacalle Pou. “The events of the last few months show that the coalition has lacked affectio societatis. The presidential and personalist model necessarily leads to disagreements (…) All the coalitions in this country were characterized by the collective making of major decisions as well as respect for all partners and the positions of each one“, held.
And he also issued a warning to the Executive Branch: “Cabildo Abierto will carefully monitor the state of public security and promote the urgent measures that must be adopted to combat the scourge of crime and drug trafficking,” pointed and He added: “He has given himself a term, not an ultimatum, until the end of this month to seek an urgent legislative solution for irrecoverable debtors and people included in the clearing,” he said.
The previous one of the Political Table
Ramiro Pisabarro
Manini Ríos and his wife, Irene Moreira, leave for the Cabildo Abierto headquarters to meet with the Political Table
Before the meeting of the Political Table, Manini Rios He was meeting on the fourth floor of the annex to the Legislative Palace with leaders of his party until just before six in the afternoon. Shortly after, his wife, former minister Moreira, arrived, accompanied by his father, Roque Moreira.
Throughout the weekend the lobbyist leader held calls with leaders. “Anything can happen,” the senator told Underlined upon entering the Cabildo Abierto headquarters.
Open Town Hall was held the weekend deadline to make a decision. This was announced on Friday, when publicly summoned the president to review the resignation request that he had transmitted to him in the morning by telephone.
The president remained firm and when he heard the words of Manini Ríos called Moreira to ratify the resignation request. Manini Ríos’s wife complied with the decision but it was not until Friday night, when she finally announced in a public statement that I would leave the Secretary of State and return to Parliament to occupy the seat that Raúl Lozano occupies today in the Senate.
Lacalle Pou formally signed Moreira’s resignation this Monday and appointed the Minister of Transport and Public Works, José Luis Falero, as the head of Housing on an interim basis. He also ratified the Undersecretary of Housing, the Colorado Tabaré Hackenbruch, in office.
