The mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, considered that the now former Minister of Environment Adrián Peña “took the right step” upon resigning from office.
“The people who are in decision-making places are trustees of the citizenry. Therefore, if there was an act of lying, It’s good that you recognized it, I think you recognized the mistake and acted accordingly. It seems to me that he took the right step, ”she said at a press conference this Monday.
In turn, he added that the Colorado politician “made a correct political decision” by resigning, since “If the truth is lacking, you have to step aside”.
Likewise, the capital hierarch recognized “the work” of Peña as ministerrecalling that both worked together “on various issues”, but mainly on the sanitation loan of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This project failed in the Departmental Boardbut Peña supported him and asked the red councilors to vote for him.
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Asked about how this resignation affects the government, the mayor reassured that the administration of Luis Lacalle Pou has no direction and proof of this are the various cabinet changes it has undergone —mostly in colorado ministries—.
“What is in the background is that it is a government that has no direction […] in a world that increasingly needs direction, because if there is something that the world today has, it is that it is a convulsed, changing world; The world is on the brink of things,” reflected Cosse.
In any case, the head of the IM affirmed that his opinion on “what happens with reality and the government goes much further” in this particular case of Peña’s resignation.
