The Government Association of Colorado Party de Montevideo defined that this party participate in the 2025 departmental elections with its own candidate and lead the departmental coalition.
In the previous election the entire coalition supported the economist Laura Raffowho had ties to the National Party, and in the motto of the Independent Party.
The lack of a project for Montevideo has been one of the main self-criticisms made by the multicolor coalition and that is why the colorados will try to start from now on to trace a path with the aim of competing with the Broad Front in 2025. For more than 30 years that the left rules in the capital.
Raffo announced that she will not be a candidate for mayor of Montevideo and the colorados began to move chips ahead of the 2025 departmental elections, although for the moment They have not defined a candidate.
The current leader of Herrerismo is projected as one of the pre-candidates for the Presidency for the National Party and has added targets from other sectors to his campaignas This is the case of the Alianza Nacional sector.
However, also received criticism from leaders of his own party. The senator and leader of the Movement for the Homeland of the National Party, Jorge Gandini, said that a Raffo’s presidential campaign would be “a setback” in the aspirations of winning the Municipality of Montevideo.
Departmental coalition in the interior
Last Monday the main partner of the National Party in government made a decision that can change the electoral future of the coalition.
The National Executive Committee, the highest body of the Colorado Party, constituted a delegation to travel through the interior to present a “common motto” to the coalition parties to compete in the departmental elections.
On Monday 8/5 the CEN of the PC resolved at the request of Secretary General Dr. Sanguinetti to set up a delegation to propose to the parties of the coalition the idea of a common motto for the departmental ones.
We will defend that each Party has its candidate. https://t.co/A2vAwEsALb— Conrado Rodríguez (@Dip_ConradoRod) May 11, 2023
Until now, this electoral format only worked like this in Montevideo. Where all the parties of the coalition (National Party, Colorado Party, Cabildo Abierto, Partido de la Gente and Partido Independiente) voted under the banner of Partido Independiente for Laura Raffo.
Coalitions functioned inside but under the umbrella of the National Party. In Rocha, for example, a candidate from the Cabildo Abierto was within the motto of the whites.
In the case of the interior proposal, the Colorados propose that each party have its own candidateas they also propose for the next departmental elections in Montevideo and set a neutral motto.
