The mayor of Canelones Juan López stopped belonging to the National Party after the party’s board of directors asked him to resign.
The situation took place after López gave the vote to approve a loan for 44 million dollars for works in Canelones.
At a press conference, Iturralde explained the reasons why the departmental parliamentarian’s non-continuity was determined.
“We have reached an understanding that beyond the fact that he was elected by the PN, we ask him to resign from the bench,” he said. “Naturally, the facts mean that he has placed himself outside the party and therefore it does not seem appropriate for him to continue integrating our community. We are a party of free men, but we are a party of responsible men”, he added.
“The National Party made the decision not to support the initiative,” Iturralde said. He then indicated that they talked with the mayors, legislators and the Department of the party and asked Orsi for a period of 15 days to make the decision.
The president of the party maintained that “the path of agreeing with a mayor separately was preferred,” so the deadline was not respected.
Iturralde was categorically opposed to the way in which Orsi referred to the subject. After Senator Da Silva accused the mayor of buying votes, the community leader said: “There are other people who are moved by other interests. I understand that statement, I understand why there are some people who only consider that money is what moves things. I even understand how someone, who is only moved by those interests, can consider a mayor as a poor devil. In the same way that a bad boss treats his pawn, that’s what I think is happening here. So I say, I perfectly understand the tone because it is a constant and that obviously goes very against the grain of that of dignity above and joy below.
Faced with these statements, Iturralde said that they were not going to accept “the advice on how to treat the laborers that Mayor Yamandú Orsi gives us, precisely he who is part of the MPP, along with the Tupamaros. They are not going to tell us how to treat the pawns.
It should be noted that before the expulsion of the National Party, its faction, National Alliance, made that same decision.
