Pérez, from Palmyra, former National Director of Tourism, today is dedicated entirely to his profession: lawyer; He did not save anything in the interview that EL ECO conducted with him, and he made an announcement.
“If we talk about the Colorado Party, it must be said that it is in its worst historical moment, it is on the brink of disappearance; He has lost his total identity, ”Pérez said in his evaluation of what is happening so far in the Luis Lacalle government.
For the quincista “the party was trapped in a binary logic that has done it very badly. When I say binary logic I mean a country divided in two. It could have a logical perspective that, instead of the Broad Front, other parties were in the government, but with the National Party, the Colorado Party has lost its total identity.
Lacalle’s government “is far from being good, and in this binary logic the Colorado Party lost its identity in almost all departments, except in Rivera,” the only Colorado mayor.
Speaking from history, he said that “the Colorado Party has built Uruguay. It is a reform party and as such it has to recover its identity”
Half of this period of government has elapsed “and no important changes have been made, such as the reform of the State.” On the contrary, “there are more and more political positions, corruption. The Colorado Party does not have a critical voice in keeping with its 180-year history.”
Pérez remarked that “the party today does not have a clear way out to recover its deeply colored identity, which is neither a front party nor a white one.”
When Jorge Batlle was president, at the worst moment of the country’s economic crisis, the whites left, they left him governing alone.
The Colorado Party “is without leadership,” Pérez said. Julio Ma. Sanguinetti is not running for the presidency, Ernesto Talvi left; and Adrián Peña was removed from the position of minister for not telling the truth and therefore would not be a candidate for the Ciudadanos sector.
“The match with Bordaberry had a direction, it had a course that could be shared in some things and not in others; Talvi won the internal one with an intelligent proposal that reached the people, that achieved a new voter for the party, managed to position itself with a very strong banner, as was his initiative to create 136 full-time high schools”.
Half the government is going and with the Colorado Robert Silva in the presidency of the Codicen and “of the 136 full-time high schools, zero has been made.” And he wondered: How are we going to face the proposal of the 136 high schools, which was our campaign flag, when today we are co-government and nothing was done?
The charges
Today the party “does not have leadership, it is exclusively to hold positions, there is no vision, a State policy, with a Julio Ma. Sanguinetti who has been doing a lot of harm to the Colorado Party.”
For Pérez there is a “multiplication of political positions” and he gave as an example that there are the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Environment, the National Housing Agency and the Mortgage Bank, organizations linked to housing. The government is a machine to create positions, nothing of deep subjects”.
return to politics
After resigning as National Director of Tourism, and despite the fact that former President Sanguinetti threatened him with not giving him a place within the Colorados, Martín Pérez will return to the political arena for the next national elections. “I will go back to politics because I like it, and because the party has to recover its identity.”
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