“Yesterday I found out about the complaint from the Colorado Party candidate, Andrés Ojeda. Obviously, if there is a campaign of false complaints, I sympathize with it and it should be the corresponding complaint. I have no more elements in this case, but today I am taking care of the manners, taking care of the tone, taking care of the forms, because I not only want to be president, but I also want to be a good president,” Delgado declared at a press conference.
When asked if Ojeda had been hasty in making the complaint, Delgado avoided giving a specific answer: “No, that’s what they’re asking him about. I don’t have elements. I saw it in the press. What I’m telling you is, if there really is and you have evidence that there is a fake news campaign, you should report it. And obviously he has my support and solidarity.”
The nationalist candidate was emphatic about the need to act quickly and unambiguously in the face of the possibility of a fake news campaign: “Here, whoever eventually detected a fake news campaign, if they have the evidence, what they have to do is report it. It seems to me that these things must be eradicated quickly and be forceful. There is no room for ambiguity here.”
Finally, Delgado reiterated his support for Ojeda, ensuring that his focus is on maintaining a respectful tone during the campaign: “If there is evidence, it is reported. Because it seems to me that we are doing harm to democracy, to Uruguay, to the democratic culture of Uruguay, if we start with rumors. If there is a report of a campaign that uses fake news, we report it. If there is evidence, we report it. And obviously they have my support in that sense,” he reiterated and added: “I go the other way. “They never saw me attack, disqualify, or raise the tone.”
