Óscar rests his hand on his comrade’s shoulder, sighs, and asks in a low voice. No laps.
–Chifle, are we going with Carolina? What are we going to do?
Gabriel Molinathe “Chifle”, president of the Union of Telecommunications and one of the most voted members of the Central Committee of the Communist Partytake accounts.
–On May 21 we resolve. Sunday. There is Central Committee.
–I need to know in the neighborhood, did you see? That one has already left.
the militant refers to the mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, who has already made his candidacy official with the support of the MPP, the Artiguista Slope and the new group La Patriada.
Her colleague from Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, still keeps any conversation of this type away from her. so much that just smile at the “you’re going to be president” of a militant in the Bile Martínez committee of the Broad Front, between the Prado and Paso de las Duranas. The senator of her kidney, Silvia Nane, dissuades with a cordial “we will have to see” the comment of another neighbor: “I would ask Carolina if she has faith with the mayor of Canelones“.
All the readings in the mouths of leaders of the Broad Front and political analysts lead to the fact that the support of the Communist Party will be decisive to start the engines. The sector –a heavyweight in the leftist coalition and in the internal ones– resolved to postpone the negotiations for candidacies to prioritize the programmatic debate, a definition that also pass a message in.
Leonardo Carreno
Archive of 2021, Carolina Cosse and Gabriel Molina, who this Monday, May 1, met in a meeting in a grassroots committee
“Thinking that now is the time to discuss candidacies is a major mistake”, Senator Óscar Andrade said days ago in an interview with La Diaria. The communist leader acknowledged that “it is a possibility” to support Cosse for having been a senator for list 1001 and having promoted her for the Mayor of Montevideo, although the decision “has not been made” and she “knows it.”
A part of the uncertainty responds to the aspirations recognized by Andrade himself Some time ago he repeated a pre-candidacy, although the same senator began to manage in recent weeks that he wants to “return to the social movement”, statements that his own comrades observe as a sign.
“We are going to end up going with Carolina”, “the formula must be shielded”, all the leaders consulted repeat in a low voice, although they prefer to respect the organic times.
The same concern that the neighborhood militant conveys to Molina in the Frente Amplio committee is also felt by the leaders of the interior. Such is the case of the deputy for Flores, Federico Ruiz, elected in 2019 for the alliance of the local list with the communists, who aspires to reissue the sublemma and frequently consults his peer Ana Olivera – Party delegate for ties within the FA–, awaiting resolution.
“There are comments from comrades from more than one department that need a definition, because the issue of candidacies is already everywhere, and they are also interested in the departmental government,” he explained to The Observer a participant of the last Central Committee.
Public companies “are sleeping giants”
In the meantime, Mayor Cosse directs all her darts towards the government, with a speech that touches all the axes that cross a campaign.
“Imagine if the economy cools down in the world (…), as a small country we are going to feel it faster,” he said on Monday in the Broad Front committee, which he arrived at after the May 1 act. “We are going to have to make important changes, important national agreements,” he maintained. “Growth yes, but growth at the expense of the workers, no. This is what is happening now,” he added.
Ramiro Pisabarro
Carolina Cosse in the Bile Martínez committee, of the Broad Front
“We are going to have to take care of things that we take for granted, (…) what is happening now calls our attention. Don’t we start to look at the water differently, now that it is salty? It is a very important natural resource, so we are going to need a Uruguay that grows with large agreements and with a plan known to all,” he said, referring to the OSE announcements before the drought and the Neptune project.
“We are going to have to grow with inclusion taking care of the environment; In the world, and I tell you this properly, if a country does not have a plan to take care of the environment, it is lost. truly lost“He declared before the militants who shared a lentil on Islas Canarias street.
Cosse announced that the FA will have to “systematically incorporate the reconstruction of Uruguay”: “Are public companies with this artificial intelligence thing going to do nothing? We have like giants sleeping”, said the former Minister of Industry.
“How are we going to generate new paradigms in energy? Are we going to continue putting windmills? Only that? Isn’t it necessary to get to a smart grid once and for all?”, he wondered. “Can you imagine when the entire Montevideo bus fleet is electric? Can you imagine the silence, all that we are going to clean the environment? That alone is going to put Uruguay with another label at an international level, everything that is produced is going to be a little more expensive if we manage to take that step.”he assured.
Cosse maintained “very calm” that the left did “a lot for education.” “It is brutally naive to think that the botijas drop out because the teachers are boring. It seems that they speak without knowing what happens in the neighborhoods, jugs that they abandon because they have a very complicated life”, questioned the mayor, who proclaimed that “education is not a problem of the MEC or of a political party”, but that “we must protect it by surrounding it” with social policies.
Annoyance with Carambula
The pronouncement of the former mayor of the Canary Islands Marcos Carámbula in favor of a nomination for Senator Mario Bergara “made noise” and “did not go down well” within the Communist Partyas confirmed The Observer. The annoyance refers to the fact that while the sector has not made a resolution for candidacies, who today is in charge of the Advanced Democratic Space that seeks to deepen the scope of 1001 (Carámbula), made a statement that is not discussed in the communist leadership.
The former mayor stated in a letter that “Mario Bergara’s candidacy does a lot of good for him at the front, because of his ability, his solvency, his training, (…) because of his absolute unitary front-line consequence” and because “he represents a of those historical currents” that “needs to strengthen and grow to win in 18 months”.
