Last week, Napoleón Gardiol joined Guillermo Rodríguez’s group and not María de Lima’s, to the point that the candidate for parliament and mayor of Colonia herself said she felt disconcerted “with Gardiol’s decision.” “But well, as I always say, each person has to be where they want and where they feel comfortable.”
The candidate believes that at the departmental level they want to “generate a new structure, generate a new plan for what we want for Colonia, a change, a development that generates work, investments, care for people in vulnerable situations, a place where people feel proud to live. To do this, we have to make important changes.”
Among the proposals of the nationalist is to invest more in tourism, because “currently only 2% of the budget is invested in tourism, when the department has a lot to develop, to give a strong push to modern infrastructures. We have to generate sources of employment and that is why we talk about investments.”
The candidate, who is part of the OPP (Planning and Budget Office) during this period of government, finds it funny when people say: “’María talks a lot about investments and talks about people who can come, but she forgets about the people of Colonia.’ No, that is underestimating the people of Colonia. If we bring investments, we bring construction; if we bring construction, we bring work. In other words, it is all in one. We want to invite the people of Colonia to dream of a different department and that is our number one premise.”
There are Frente Amplio supporters who no longer want “more of the same”, that is, the continuity of Moreirism with the candidacy for mayor of Guillermo Rodríguez and think that they could be inclined to vote for María de Lima in the municipal elections. We refer to this position, which is discussed by certain left-wing citizens. In this regard, he comments: “It makes me proud, happy and makes sense, because I do not talk about partisan politics. We, the people of Colonia, must think and look far ahead. We have to do this together, the great leaders are over, wanting to insist on this is very complicated because we are submerging our society in a department that has no future. We must think about renewal. When we talk about a national campaign for deputyship with a senate that has a correlation with the departmental government, we are not talking about small things, we are talking about a lot because these are opportunities for our people.”
