lose control of the ring supposes, for a boxer, to know that your opponent is attacking you. That is marking you where to walk. what is pulling back, close to the ropeswhere he has less ability to move.
The metaphor is useful to describe the current situation but it is not whimsical: was used by the President of the Republic several months ago to convey to the legislators of the coalition the need to recover a central place in the public debate.
By the end of the third year, in that position seems to be the government of Luis Lacalle Pou. he lost the center of the ring and couldn’t get it back. His opponent “that hits everything that moves” –in the words of the president– it is assaultinggave several blows and took control.
The last one was hard. He felt strongly in the 11th floor of the Executive Tower, because it was unexpected and forceful. Was a punch that had already been given, but stronger.
The revelation that Guillermo Maciel and Carolina Ache knew who Sebastián Marset was when he managed the passport, he undid a central part of the argument that the government had given in the interpellation, when the hierarchs assured that They learned of the file several months later, only when Interpol issued an international indictment.
That omission has vice chancellor on the ropeswith his sector analyzing if he keeps support or take away the confidence, an extreme that would cause a new change in the cabinet. This hypothesis assumes score a bean for the oppositionso it is weighted when making a decision, under the reflection that the leftist coalition is in a fiery campaign to demote the government with a view to 2024.
But in his defense, through a letter delivered on Thursday to the Citizens legislators, here He pointed out that if there are responsibilities, they are, in any case, shared, since he revealed that at At the time of the interpellation “all the hierarchs had full knowledge of all the communications and their content”.
The Marset caseadded to the derivations of the imputation of Alejandro Astesianothey have put defensive to the government in recent weekscausing some issues considered relevant go almost unnoticed.
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As a symptom of this loss of the center of the ring, a white senator evaluated in conversation with The Observerthe The archive of the port case had little significance in which four front-line leaders were exempted from responsibility after being accused by the Broad Front of benefiting Katoen Natie in the extension of the concession until 2081. Or how the coalition had managed to close ranks so that Guido Manini Ríos could get out of the controversy about whether his farm in Artigas is affected by the National Institute of Colonization.
These signs, “that are good for the government”were overshadowed by other explanations, such as the fish that the Emiratis gave to Lacalle Pou.
In the ruling party they understand that this last case is the sign that the leftist coalition decided to be “an opposition that would not give up” as Beatriz Argimón said during the last ADM lunch.
In that meeting, The vice president pointed out that the Broad Front “many times makes false reports” and seeks to build through “half truths”, which ultimately end up “being lies”.
This diagnosis, shared at various levels of government, is rejected by the left-wing coalition, which points out a breach of “take charge”, Lacalle Pou’s campaign slogan. “The government has decided to minimize the problem (…) and if it does not assume its responsibilities” it is the opposition’s obligation to “reclaim them”, said the vice president of the FA, Verónica Piñeiro this Thursday in an act for the anniversary of Líber Seregni.
The dialectical compulsa included a criticism of the minister Luis Alberto Heber, that the day before he had said in an event of the 71 that The FA does not “forgive the success” of the government. “It’s a pity because this only speaks of the arrogance of a government that does not admit political differences,” Piñeiro settled.
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But while the coalition is united in criticizing the opposition, loss of control of the ring provokes internal conflicts, with some legislators They demand a more frontal defense to the governmentand also comments from business sectorswhich especially point out how the low dollar affects competitiveness.
The nationalist senator sebastian da silva He said he felt “alone” in defense of the Executive and criticized that “many of his companions” they are not “reacting as they should”, leaving only the president. Therefore, resolved to “lead the resistance to this onslaught”.
This Tuesday in Colognewhen Lacalle Pou faced the microphones and had to answer about the situations of Marset and Astesiano, Da Silva was shown standing grimly behind. “Always on the road, never at the inn,” she later wrote on her Twitter account, noting that this year she had been told “no to the stick in the wheel” and that in 2023 they should say “not one step back”.
A few days before, the president had heard other claims of a VIP audience made up of 25 businessmenthat they asked him “open the faucet more” and the game to back who will compete in the next national election for the coalition.
