The president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, assured that the vote for “Yes” to the repeal of the 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration is growing, and that the government is “nervous.”
“To the extent that people know and understand, the vote for Yes is growing, they are nervous about something. Never before has a president participated in a referendum, “said Pereira, who has been very active in activating the” Yes “since he assumed the presidency of the FA.
“A government arrives and presents 476 articles, and they tell us that it is a popular law, when 70% of Uruguayans do not know it,” criticized the former president of the PIT-CNT, and assured that the people are “wise, committed and daring ”.
“That the people have had the wisdom, the political will, and the love to go out and gather the signatures despite all the difficulties, is part of Uruguay’s democratic reserve,” Pereira continued in an in-depth interview in the LUC space.
“We played an excellent first half and now is the time to act. Knock on the door of each Uruguayan bringing the explanations they need, bringing our truths and explaining hand in hand about a terrible law that devalues public education, impoverishes it and transfers public resources to private education “, continued the leader of the opposition force .
Later, he criticized the lies that are told to confuse the public and that they vote against the repeal. “They tell us that if the LUC is repealed, it will not be possible to go out on the streets, when did that happen in Uruguay? I only remember it in the dictatorship. Then we asked to always go out on the street. Or that if thousands of prisoners are repealed they will be released, this is not true. Today what they are telling people is a sum of lies ”, he concluded.
