Pereira referred to the decision of the caucus of white mayors and a fraction of Colorados not to vote in the Departmental Board of Montevideo on the loan of 70 million dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank so that the Municipality of Montevideo could carry out sanitation works and cleaning in the capital.
“The biggest blockade of this period occurred, the works for 70 million dollars for cleaning and sanitation of the capital, to continue improving the city with the best sanitation in all of Latin America, were blocked by an electoral political decision that has nothing to do with do with the quality of life of the people of Montevideo” he lamented.
stick in the wheel
Pereira said he was surprised by “the stick in the wheel that they placed, when the attitude of the Municipality of Montevideo was always one of negotiation.”
On the other hand, he highlighted the attitude of the Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peña from Colorado, who called for a vote in favor of the loan, “with the understanding that this policy is in line with those of the Ministry of the Environment, and even so they preferred to vote against it with such that the governments of the Broad Front do not have works during this period”.
He stressed that the decision that was made is not against the departmental government, but against the residents of Montevideo.
Violence
He recalled that something similar happened to the mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, although in the end he obtained a trust thanks to a vote by a white mayor, who was later reviled by members of his party.
“I haven’t seen stuff like that in a long time. So much verbal and written violence. In the case of the Canelones trust, a mayor from the Colorado Party said that he felt that he had been given a coup d’état, and these are the political practices with which we do not agree and that we are going to denounce by saying that works are being blocked ” , sentenced.
Pereira added: “There are two ways of governing, on the one hand those of us who put citizens at the center of our concerns and, on the other hand, those who are thinking about the 2024 electoral campaign.”
