Mujica and his wife, former senator Lucía Topolansky, visited Buenos Aires on April 2 to commemorate 40 years of the Malvinas cause.
In the last few hours, the former president revealed in an interview with Radio del Plata some of the details of the conversations he had with President Alberto Fernández and with Vice President Cristina Fernández, to overcome differences in government.
In the radio interview, which was replicated by written media, the president was asked about the crisis that broke out in the Frente de Todos, which deepened by agreement with the IMF and the fight against inflation.
“They don’t have to pour gasoline, they have to look for some point of agreement because otherwise they are opening the front in favor of those who are on the opposite sidewalk,” said the former Uruguayan president.
He added: “I told the president and my partner told Cristina. We talk like old men, that worries us looking at the river, because when Argentina is doing well, we are doing well”.
Mujica remarked that “it is a difficult moment, because more than ever they need a firm rudder. The fight is bad and it hurts both of them.”
“Argentina needs a government that works today, then there is the question of direction. Argentina would need important people to dedicate themselves for 15 days to drinking mate together instead of bitching and see if they can find half a dozen points that become medium-term state policies,” the president said at the time.
The Broad Front
On the other hand, Mujica referred to the experience of the Broad Front in Uruguay, a coalition of left and center-left sectors founded in 1971.
“Discrepancies we have had and will have. However, we are the largest party in the country, because we have been able to maintain unity, and history has shown us that whoever leaves, disappears politically. We must have negotiating capacity and establish institutions that allow us to resist crises”, he exemplified.
