Fernando Pereira: "People must want to live in 2019" and not in 2022

“If you ask me about 2019 with the current year… and people must want to live in 2019 and that was not the best year of the Broad Front government. We recognize that we lacked things to do but there was no shortage of medicines in the hospitals, there was no shortage of insulin or blood pressure medicines“He said when asked by a journalist.

Pereira added that he does not forget how Uruguay was in 2019. “It was in much better condition than today according to all the data provided by the National Institute of Statistics. Uruguay worsened the purchasing power of workers with three years of falling real wages. The purchasing power of retirees with three years of decline. The country realizes that consumption fell in the last two years“, he assured.

“Poverty has increased, there are 78 thousand poorer people than in 2019, Child poverty has increased, especially in the 0 to 6 age group. There is a very strong employment problem on the border with Argentina that Uruguay does not place any alternative policy to that of removing IMESI from gasoline, We have important social problems and thousands of Uruguayans living on the streets that the social policies of Mides do not address. The building that was going to be in Casavalle is not there and no one sees the transfers, “he assured.

The president of the Broad Front maintained that the government “is obsessed with the previous governments of the Broad Front.” “The permanent comparisons with the Broad Front seem not to listen what President Lacalle raised on March 1 when he already said that in the third year of government it was not worth making excuses for the previous efforts of the Broad Front. But it seems that the rulers do not listen to the president as much and have the need to hide his failures in previous administrations,” he concluded.