This Monday, on the 49th anniversary of the “black day” in the history of the Republic, which was June 27, 1973, the National Executive Committee of the Colorado Party declared that the dissolution of Parliament dictatorially ordered by the Executive Power on that day , “was the culmination of a process initiated in February of that year with the disregard of the authority of the Minister of Defense by the Armed Forces, communiqués 4 and 7 of the same that meant their illegitimate intrusion into political activity, and the so-called ‘Boiso Lanza Pact’, which admitted the spurious interference of the Armed Forces in the exercise of the powers that the Constitution attributes to the rulers elected by the citizens”.
“Without ignoring the merit of those who frontally opposed the coup d’état throughout its process, nor forgetting the capitulations of others, it is appropriate to remember today the pronouncement of the National Convention of the Colorado Party in February 1973, calling for the defense of ‘the institutions and legitimate authorities’, and the declaration of the National Executive Committee of the month of July of the same year that demanded the immediate return to ‘the full validity of the Constitution and the Law’”, recall the Colorados.
Exercise of freedoms
The Colorado Party states that almost half a century after those events, and “while the Republic has enjoyed since March 1, 1985 the longest period of uninterrupted validity of the Constitution in its history, the Colorado Party reiterates that only in democracy and in the full exercise of the freedoms and guarantees of the rule of law, the Uruguayan people will be able to advance in peace towards the conquest of more freedom, more justice and more prosperity for all”.
