The senator for the party Open Town Hall, Guillermo Domenechwas very critical of the management of Luis Lacalle Pou’s government and related it to the defeat suffered last Sunday against the Frente Amplio, a progressive political force that now returns to the government at the hands of Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse.
In an interview on the M24 radio program Nada Que Perder, the right-wing legislator was asked about the reasons for the defeat of the republican coalition and the victory of the FA. First, he reflected on a “cultural revolution” in which “the FA is perched” and in which the coalition parties also rose.
“I believe it is a cultural phenomenon, there is a diffusion of ideas in the West that are also incredibly promoted from the United Nations itself and from very powerful economic circles. Evidently, the left has changed its ideas: the socialization of foreign trade, agrarian reform, and claims of net economic content are no longer supported. But emphasis has been placed on the ‘rights agenda’, a debatable conceptand that has penetrated very deeply into society, widely used in universities, study centers, and journalism. It is evident that this thought, which is not typical of the Uruguayan left, but is typical of what that what we call left in the world, it has spread enormously,” said the legislator.
About the call ‘cultural battle’ Due to the pulse of the positions of the left and right ideologies, Domenech believes that the left “never lost it”and added that “it was fought from the Open Council, but the left never lost it and CA is a very modest force compared to the panorama of the left in Uruguay.”
Who is responsible for the defeat, according to Domenech?
The deputy elected by the same political force, Alvaro Perronehas been giving interviews, and assured that a large part of the defeat of the right-wing coalition against the FA is due to the flight of votes from CA to the left. Regarding this, Domenech said that “he has no doubt” that this is the case, recalling that in 2019 they contributed more than 260,000 votes and, now, only a little more than 60,000.
Although he poured water for his jug, he also pointed out strong criticism against the other parties in the right-wing coalition: “I don’t want to take responsibility away, but the truth is that our own coalition partners worked to make that happen. It was what they treated us as ‘annoying partners, uncomfortable partners, the thorn in the side’.and if you observe the television spaces and journalistic spaces in general, particularly close to the National Party, you will have observed that in general they were very critical against CA, which was a great strategic error.
Asked in the interview about the political errors and the numerous scandals that overshadowed the coalition government, and the lack of self-criticism on the part of the ruling party and its allies, Domenech reflected: “Obviously that is also another ingredient of the reasons why they were defeated. . Well, actually ‘we were’ defeated“But the main responsibility lies with the parties that tried to hegemonize the coalition in a bad way.”
“I believe that it is from the National Party and the Presidency of the Republic, in the desire to hegemonize the coalition, CA was attacked (…) the president has a very important role (in the defeat) because he tried to put his bishop at the top. front of the party, and I believe that (Álvaro) Delgado did what was within his power to succeed, but I do not assign responsibility to Delgado or (Valeria) Ripoll, because They were victims of a wrong strategy. I think that putting the responsibility on the two of them is a huge injustice. It is evident that the collaborators closest to the president were poorly chosen, from the head of security (in reference to Alejandro Astesiano), to the person in charge of his publicity (in reference to Roberto Lafluf),” the legislator added.
He closed by reviewing several of the many scandals that occurred throughout this administration, many of which were defended at the time, qualified or relativized by members of the coalition.
