The Popular Participation Movement (MPP) organized 36 “artiguista stoves” distributed in the 19 departments of the country Facing the industry congress in March 2023. The intention of the force was to install a “participation instance” of the “artiguista” type, in a new anniversary of the Provisional Land Regulationpresented by José Gervasio Artigas on September 10, 1815, which the emepepistas chose to remember the “democracy of those below”said to The Observer the senator from the Front Amploist Alejandro Sánchez.
The senator participated in a bonfire in the Casona Abayubá, located on the edge of Montevideo near La Paz, and in another at the Idea Vilariño high school in Paso de las Duranas. “It is a private congress that responds to the times, after a pandemic without attendance”explained the senator, who understands that there was a “need for conversation” with the population.
In addition to discussing the current and future needs of work and education, the national elections of 2024 were “above the table”indicated Sánchez, who maintained that people “asks to see the Broad Front” in the midst of “concern” about the unfulfilled promises of the current government in the middle of its term.
Yamandu Orsi, the applicant at the head of the MPP, appeared in all the stoves in a video in which he valued that artiguismo teaches to “think away”in some meetings that for the mayor of Canelones they invite the sector to devise “directions” for the future.
“In these moments where we are living a national reality where what is scarce is that, the course, where one has the feeling that one acts with the blow of a bucket, if there is something that we have to be clear about, it is that history teaches us thanks to Artigas to think farto look over the wall, to think in the regionto think of strategies that allow us to imagine a national development, to think about the alliances”Orsi recounted in the video, which he accessed The Observer.
However, Sánchez ruled out that today’s activity be a “launch of candidacy” of the mayor of Canelonesbut it is sought “being close to people who are going through a bad time”as a continuation of a process of closeness with the population that the Front emphasized with “The Front listens to you”, an activity in which the opposition force toured various parts of the country. According to the MPP senator, this also It is part of the “self-criticism” of the Front after its defeat in 2019.
“A great input” for the elections
The Frente Amplio deputy Gabriel Otero indicated to The Observer that in the discussion of the stove in which he participated, on the corner of Avenida Agraciada and Camino Castro (Prado), politics was in the discussion, but “not looking at the elections”. However, he acknowledged that at the MPP congress in March “definitions” will be taken, which seek to encourage the intention of the sector to be “a great input” for the victory of the Broad Front in the 2024 elections.
In his video, Orsi also indicated that the path of the MPP is coming “a path full of challenges, and fundamentally of decision-making”. On this point, he remarked that his sector “it has the seal on the edge of always thinking” and questioning “those truths” that they believed “absolute” or “those paradigms” that they thought “were forever”.
Sánchez, for his part, indicated that the idea of a congress preceded by these stoves, and other participatory events that will take place in the coming months, is part of a “self-criticism” of the Broad Front before the defeat in the last elections. The MPP, according to the senator, wants to “discuss people from the start”, with the purpose of “reverse” the “inbreeding” process that he understands that political parties carry out, in which first “a few discuss” what they want for the country in the future and then “they present it to the population.”
For Otero, the sector should aim for the “submerged” in 2024. “You don’t want to return (to the government) for a position, for vanity or for a ministry. You want to return because the people need it,” the deputy remarked.
discussion topics
According to Alejandro Sánchez, there were two central themes that the people who approached the kitchen – who clarified that they were not all militants, since the activity was open –: work and education. About the first, people conveyed the difficulties to get or keep your job and “loss of earning power”, In addition to the need to “a better distribution of wealth”.
Regarding the educational aspect, the senator from the Front of the Broad indicated that the mobilization of student unions in recent weeks was one of the recurring proposals, as well as the education reform promoted by the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP), which “nobody understands” for “not being participatory” or explained, according to the opposition legislator. “People see a quality education as the only way out”Sanchez said.
The Frente Amplio deputy from Colonia, Nicolás Viera, participated in a “virtual stove” with representatives of the Frente Amplio “diaspora”, militants of the party who reside abroad, from countries such as Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Canada, among others. The legislator told The Observer that one of the issues raised was the vision of the “MPP as a Latin Americanist that is, to establish links with the continent, a Latin American integration”.
