With the wind of polls and analysis of political scientists blowing in favor, the broad front advance their plays to March 2025 and anticipates the government of Luis Lacalle Pou what will be the “most conservative” policies that in his opinion the “herrerista project” in power wields and that he will counteract if he achieves a parliamentary majority In the elections.
“In the last days The coalition agreed, between roosters and midnight, on an agenda of setbacks in which it is once again evident (…) in Uruguay there are two country projects“, declares the opposition in a draft distributed last week to the leadership, and to which it agreed The Observer.
“The pension reform bill, the one that leaves children unprotected hidden under the misleading title of “co-responsibility in parenting”, and the vote deals that will serve to release State terrorists and torturers, They are part of a package of measures that steps on the accelerator of the setback”, interprets the political report promoted by Fernando Pereira, president of the Broad Front.
The left-wing coalition assures that in Uruguay “there is no gap”, that “solidarity in the neighborhoods” has no foreign currency and that “people meet in the streets, talk about prices that rise, salaries that do not reach no matter what political party you voted for.
The Front attacks “the conservative bloc” for being “united by a course that privileges minority groups and falls on the backs of the great majorities”, beyond a “chorus of statements with alleged divergences” between the pro-government partners that ends up being fine-tuned “at the time to vote together the parliamentary agenda of the setback”.
“They announced with great fanfare a reform that would supposedly increase pensions between 20% and 30%. But they passed on favors, errors happened, calculations and analyzes happened that were not taken into account, and today, with more than 100 changes, they do not know where they are going. What is clear is that Uruguayans will have to work longer and the vast majority will earn less,” remarks the opposition in what will be one of the main discursive lines in the campaign if the project prospers in the coalition.
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The Broad Front received President Luis Lacalle Pou at its headquarters at the beginning of the discussion for the pension reform
The left also claims to be “in agreement” with shared custody, but stands against “exposing boys and girls to their abusers” and remarks that “yes they will be” all the hands of the legislators raised so that “the budget for accelerate and improve judicial processes”.
“These are ideological and value reasons that the Front has,” Fernando Pereira told The Observer. “It is not necessary to make such spectacular measurements to say: ‘This must be faced and if we win, these things are not going to happen,'” the opposition president opined.
“If one thinks of today’s Broad Front, with 44% voting intention, it is much more similar to that of 2004 and 2009 than to the one we had to live in 2019. This is not magic, it is built with a lot of work, with an alternative, seriously, academics, consulting more than 1,500 organizations in a single year”, signed Pereira, who added that “not even the most foolish of the right can argue that today the FA is a real option to reach the government”.
The frontist position is in line with recent readings by political analysts. One of them is that of Ignacio Zuasnábar, director of Equipos Consultores, who summarized in a CED event that “today the Broad Front is in a situation, from the point of view of voting intentions, more similar to where he was in the three elections he won than where he was in the three elections he lost”.
The political scientist analyzed that already in the second round of 2019 the left-wing coalition raised its electoral support by almost ten points, a result that is similar to the one that two years later would have the Yes option in the referendum against 135 articles of the Urgent Consideration Law ( LUC). For Zuasnábar, this “break” that benefited the opposition was not an “optical illusion” but was maintained in said elections and now in the polls.
For his part, the director of Opción Consultores, Rafael Porzecanski, said this Sunday in an interview with El País that as the parties are positioned today, “the Broad Front starts with a certain advantage in a scenario of uncertainty, just as the coalition started with an advantage in the past scenario”.
The tours and the “disengagement” with agriculture
Fernando Pereira announced that the political force “is going to present in every corner of the country” its programmatic commitments towards 2024. “This implies, for the first time since ’71, that the program is not only discussed on the front base but also take contributions of society, of those who voted for us and those who perhaps never did.
The opposition will begin a tour with agricultural organizations in the coming weeks, plans to resume a second round of the “El Frente te escucha” program after the second half of May, and expects a third round from July 15 to open the programmatic debate.
“We had a disengage with the (agricultural) organizations and producers,” Pereira admitted to The Observer. “We started to rearm it with” The FA listens to you “, but we want to have a permanent link,” she said, and announced that the left also wants to build ties with the One Only Uruguay movement.
