The senator of the Colorado Party, Adrián Peña, said that his “interest is that Cabildo (Open) remains in the coalition”, after lobbying legislator Guillermo Domenech affirmed that the party evaluates a “separation”. The Cabildo’s annoyance is due to the request for the resignation of the Minister of Housing, Irene Moreiraby President Luis Lacalle Pou, after the awarding of a house without lottery to a militant.
“Without a doubt this could mean an immediate blow to the coalition,” Peña said. However, the former Minister of the Environment added this Friday in Así nos va (Carve radio): “I think that one of the main victims if you leave the coalition it is the Cabildo Abierto itself. I can’t imagine an electorally successful Open Cabildo outside the logic of the coalition.”
“Society is thinking in the key of two large blocks. We have noticed this in each election,” he said.
The senator from the Ciudadanos sector affirmed in any case that his “interest is that the Cabildo remain in the coalition.”
“Beyond the fact that it is notorious that we have differences from the ideological point of view, from the point of view of the view of many issues, I recognize in the Cabildo the representation of many people, a large part of the national electorate, so it must be respected as such,” said Peña.
The senator and president of Cabildo Abierto, Guillermo Domenech, told The Observer that he request for the resignation of the president to Moreira for delivering a house without a raffle to a militant in 2022 is an “unusual event”“unfair” and a “direct attack” to the match.
In the next few hours, the lobbying board will meet and define the steps to follow in response to the resignation request, confirmed Domenech this Friday morning, who is willing to take the “most radical” measuresand does not rule out a “separation” of Cabildo Abierto from the coalition.
Moreira had said, after meeting with Lacalle Pou and with the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, that as Secretary of State in house raffles: “There is a quota that is my reserve and many times I have not used it.”