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The president witnessed the parade together with the mayor of Artigas Pablo Caram and the nationalist deputy Valentina Dos Santos
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February 21, 2023 at 2:27 p.m.
President Luis Lacalle Pou participated in the Artigas Carnival this Monday and, like a day before when he was in Melothe night was marked by selfies and greetings with supporters.
Lacalle Pou witnessed the parade together with the mayor of Artigas, Pablo Caramand the deputy for that department, Valentina Dos Santos. Although he repeated to several journalists that he was there as just another “tourist”, he could not avoid answering some questions in a brief press conference, among them referring to the drought Yet the controversy over the collection of overtime by a municipal official.
Regarding the drought, the president insisted that “there are damages that will have consequences at the level of production, the economy, work and income for the country“. “We are going to have to keep looking for a way around it to lift up the fallen and for those fallen to start walking again,” he said.
And regarding the controversy over the collection of overtime by an official of the mayor’s office, the president replied: “From what I understand and have been finding out, there is an investigation underway and I imagine that it will have those responsible, if there are any.“.
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