The mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, responded this Sunday to the Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peñawho invited him to discuss the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC), and pointed out that the chief “seems to be more concerned” with finalizing the exchange “than with resolving such important issues for the country.”
The community chief’s statements were a response to the statements of President Luis Lacalle Pou, who before the General Assembly referred to the duty of the authorities regarding the final disposal of waste in Canelones and Montevideo.
“The president announces it and the surprise we get is that the Minister of the Environment, who is the one who has to solve this and for two years has been about to solve it, (…) He is inviting me to debate, instead of coming to talk to me about the final solution for waste in Montevideo and Canelones“, he stressed.
And he lamented: “At a time when the world has the environmental issue at its center and war is also linked, we have a minister who, instead of addressing the issue that the president raises, comes out to say that he would like to debate with Mayor Orsi”.
Lacalle Pou had stated that the government was “on call” to “advance environmentally friendly processes.” In turn, he stated that although he held talks with the communes of Montevideo and Canelones, “no progress” has yet been made on the matter as he intended.
In response, the mayor said: “We have a fundamental task. (…) With pleasure I listened to the president, but I have my serious doubts that he has the right enforcement arm.”
Peña had expressed his interest in debating with Orsi on the radio program Paren Todo, from El Espectador, where he stated that the instance “could be interesting” given the “number of undecided” that, he visualizes, the department has ahead of the referendum for the LUCK.
