The president of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pousaid this Thursday that he asked the former presidents Jose Mujica Y Julio Maria Sanguinetti to accompany him to the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1st.
“That is what Uruguay has to demonstrate. They will not be surprised if I tell them that I have some political differences with Mujica and that I have more coincidences with Sanguinetti. But what is that? It is the democratic, institutional and republican continuity. In today’s world few countries can demonstrate“, he affirmed in a press conference during the inauguration of the double track of route 3.
In dialogue with journalists, Lacalle confirmed that both former presidents will accompany him to the inauguration.
The president asked to set aside “political differences.” “Let’s put aside the daily quarrels and try to think big. This government has 799 days of hard work left, but knowing that someone will come after us that the citizens will elect, to continue doing what is being done, to change something that it is being done wrong and to do something that was never done. That is the very evolution of the individual and of society,” assured.
Lacalle Pou and Mujica met a few days ago at the Suarez y Reyes residence, the weekly Búsqueda reported. According to the weekly, the president and Mujica talked about different current issues.
The announcement comes after new revelations of chats in the case of the former presidential custodian Alexander Astesiano.
It also arises after the Undersecretary of Foreign Relations, Carolina Ache, resigned from her position already Citizensthe sector to which he belonged in the Colorado Party, due to leaks of conversations in the framework of the processing of the passport of drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.
