In August 2020, the former Education official of the government of Tabaré Vázquez, Glenda Rondan, threw Laura Raffo a phrase that was controversial at the time but prophetic in the long run. In a crossover in Polemica en el Bar, Rondán got angry at an attempt to ignore Raffo, and shot him without mercy: “I am Glenda Rondan. I was twice a deputy, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, edila for two periods. You are wronging me and you are disrespecting me. You just disrespected me. It is very sad that a woman does not handle the codes of politics. I don’t let myself be disrespected. Even if you are an economist, even if you are a young, beautiful woman, Do you know what you are not going to be? Mayor, that’s not going to be, “said lapidary.
And yes, Raffo would be thinking of deciding that she will not be mayor, this time not by decision of the majority, who opted for Carolina Cosse at that time, but because it has more of a presidential pretense. And this potential candidacy it has not gone down well in some stores of the National Party.
For Gandini, it is a setback
The nationalist legislator, Jorge Gandini, opined that it would not be good for Laura Raffo to define herself as a presidential candidate, since “the strategy falls apart” to win the Mayor of Montevideo in 2025.
“Raffo had accumulated an interesting vote. We accumulated a person, public knowledge, that person trained, got to know Montevideo, generated and settled. And he did it very well. The plan was ‘let’s empower Laura Raffo. Let’s do a five-year job behind her and hope that the colorados put up a candidate, the Cabildo another and we all go after a motto together.’ We could fight with that, ”she said in an interview with the program Who is who of Diamond FM.
“The party generated resources so that Raffo would have full dedication, she was given offices, a foundation that supports her. She is president of the Departmental, all thinking in that way. She opted for another path, now we return to zero pages. We look at each other and say ‘now who do we put?’. It is a step backwards”, added the pro-government legislator.
He regretted that Raffo is not seriously considering running for the second time for the IMM because there would be various problems for the National Party. Montevideo would continue to be “a curve” for the whites. “If they give you the candidacy in February 2025, you have three months left to campaign, without a penny because they spent it all on the national one. You have to put the table on the edge, put it now as all the candidates from the interior do. Those candidates put the table now. In Montevideo, you have no one to put it on, ”she established.
