The National Political Table of the Broad Front officially recognized the result of this Sunday’s referendum, although it highlighted the level of adherence that the Yes option had.
“Our option did not achieve the objective by not reaching the necessary majorities to annul the 135 articles submitted to a referendum and, as befits a political force that is respectful of the pronouncements of our people, we recognize the result,” said an approved statement. this Monday unanimously. Therefore, for the left “the worst 135 articles of the LUC remain in our legal system”.
According to the Broad Front, these are articles that translate into “significant setbacks” for the country in terms of rights and guarantees, in security policies, in the protection of public education, the right to housing, in money laundering control. of assets, the essence of the National Colonization Institute, labor rights and the defense of public companies.
The opposition considers that it is not yet the time to take stock of the electoral result. For this, it is stated, it will be necessary to proceed with patience and rigor in the analysis of the data. However, he chose to salute a militancy that made possible a “democratic feat that will be saved forever in the best history of our country.”
“This tight result means listening carefully to the pronouncement of almost half of the electorate, making it clear that the LUC is not a popular law and its contents divide our society”, it states.
For the opposition, citizens were the protagonists this Sunday of a civic day that “sets a new milestone” for the country and that closes a process in which, “in the heat of popular participation,” Uruguayan democracy consolidated its strength. “Uruguay is not divided into halves,” says the text. “The Uruguayan people continue to be an example of coexistence and republican culture,” he adds.
“There were 800,000 citizen wills that allowed our people to know the contents of a law that, through a treatment of low democratic quality, generated misinformation in the face of changes of enormous importance for our society,” says the declaration, approved unanimously.
The Broad Front promised to continue working tirelessly to build an alternative model to the current one, which in its opinion favors minorities to the detriment of the great national majorities. As a balance, it is considered that the path initiated by various social organizations, which the political force later decided to join in challenging the law, resulted in an “accumulation process” that “will strengthen the unity of the popular field” and advance in the consolidation of ” social and political block of changes”.
