With an event in the Idea Vilariño square in Montevideo, the Frente Amplio celebrated 52 years since its first public act in 1971.
The day featured speeches by the president of the Gender and Feminisms Commission, Patricia González, vice president Verónica Piñeiro and president Fernando Pereira.
The latter spoke to the Frente Amplio militancy, pointing out that they were preparing to return to government in 2025, a conviction that -according to he assured- the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, also has.
“More and more compatriots are taking the step towards our ranks, regaining confidence in our political project, which has been able to modestly rebuild itself, returning to its roots to look far ahead and think about the future,” he said.
Then, Pereira said that “the conviction of victory reaches such a point” that Lacalle Pou -with whom he has coincided “very little” in recent months-, made known to “all Uruguayan society his secret conviction that the Front Broad will be government again ”.
“A few days ago, at an ADM lunch, looking at Yamandú and me, he said: ‘I’m sure you want us to approve the pension reform, so we won’t leave that to you.’ It’s crystal clear, isn’t it?” He said.
A few minutes later, Pereira made six commitments for Uruguay.
In the first place, he mentioned that if he returns to the government, they will immediately implement a “plan to support children that allows us to solve structural poverty in childhood once and for all.”
Then, he said that the day after returning to government they would summon “all the actors to elaborate a social security reform that thinks about the world of work that is already undergoing transformation at a global level.”
“I never let the dream of dignity for my neighbors fall asleep. We organized, we fought and thanks to the governments of the Broad Front it became a reality”, words of Pelusa Medina, a reference and promoter of the transformation of the old Isla de Gaspar settlement . pic.twitter.com/GFeouTZQ6U
– Broad Front (@Frente_Amplio) March 26, 2023
In third place, he spoke of a “political and social dialogue to comprehensively address security policy” and in fourth he pointed out a “development strategy that allows production to grow in a friendly way with the planet.”
The fifth commitment, assumed by the president of the FA, was to develop a strategy for culture while the sixth was “with the youth”. “Young people misunderstood by our generations cannot be singled out as was done when we had to go out and say that ‘being young is not a crime’.”
Pereira also said that the ruling party is “very concerned” about the internal leftist coalition and that they were working for a victory but not just any. “We are not willing to build victory by playing on the edge of the Constitution. We are going to build victory standing in the leadership of the people. In the people who militantly built the popular governments that changed the country. The one that gathering signatures in a pandemic put a stop to arrogance. The one that 2019 demonstrated in a month that with the people leading the changes, any feat is possible ”, he declared.
