Senator Sebastián Da Silva announced that María de Lima would go to the senate. She intends to be the first woman to occupy the seat of the Municipal Palace of Colonia.
Linked to the government of Luis Lacalle, she works in the Decentralization and Social Cohesion Area of the Planning and Budget Office (OPP).
She is 52 years old and is a mother of two children. She was mayor of Nueva Helvecia for two terms (2010-2020), in the nationalist government she has the responsibility of touring the country as a member of the OPP, her future is envisioned within departmental or national politics. This arises from the conversation that María de Lima had with EL ECO.
– What is your evaluation of the result of the runoff?
– The voice of the people at the polls is accepted, understood. The result was clear and conclusive: our future president is Yamandú Orsi.
President Luis Lacalle invited him to the Mercosur Summit* and that speaks of the democratic guarantees that we have at the country level.
I defend and continue to defend the current government because it is very proactive, it offers many possibilities in governance. Through the OPP, public policies were reached in the interior, to the entire country equally. The current government is very objective and equitable when it comes to distributing resources to the municipalities, regardless of the political party.
– Through the OPP you are in contact with the entire country, do you have a relationship with Orsi?
– I have worked with Yamandú Orsi and with his entire team as well. both publicly and personally I greeted him and his team.
– Before the elections Sebastián Da Silva said that you were going to occupy the senate starting in February, is that correct?
– Yes. We are organizing. At this moment we coordinate actions, obviously the results are not what we expected. My goal is to be in the Senate (he is a substitute), in the first months when the budget is discussed, but my number one goal is the Municipality of Colonia; work for the people of Colonia, generate opportunities for the people of Colonia. We already have a team, especially of councillors, working on the proposals that interest people in their daily lives, to make them concrete. Since everything has an order, in my case I will be a candidate for mayor if this is resolved at the National Party convention.
– But she has the votes to be proclaimed a candidate for mayor.
– Yes. We are very happy with the team we have at “Alianza País”.
– Would you enter a position if the next government offered it to you?
– I am a party woman, I would discuss it with my party, if they agreed I would not have any problem because I have worked very well with the departmental governments of Canelones and Montevideo and with the municipalities. I have a very good relationship with all political parties because I am a democratic woman. I work with everyone, because once a government takes office, it belongs to everyone.
*It takes place on December 5 and 6 in Montevideo.
