In the framework of a press conference in Rocha, the future Minister of Defense of the Yamandú Orsi government, Sandra Lazo, made statements about the challenges that her portfolio will take on and assured the continuity of the line of work begun in 2006 during the governments of the Broad Front.
Lazo, accompanied by other future ministers of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), stated: “Until February 28 there is a government and it will be the subject of our portfolio to say what we find ourselves with as of March 1. With a line that actually began in 2006, it did not begin in 1985 nor during the governments that took place between 1985 and 2006, they began in 2006, we are going to continue with that.” According to the future minister, there is work carried out by the Broad Front governments that will be continued, but she highlighted the importance of knowing first-hand the current state of the ministry.
Regarding the challenges of his management, Lazo mentioned several priority issues. Among them, he highlighted the need to address inequalities: “Improve the issue of equalization and less inequality, this problem that is social, that is cultural, that is economic, that is wage gaps, is also present in the different levels of the Ministry of Defense itself, therefore that is one of the lines of work.”
He also emphasized the importance of the educational and health areas within the ministry, and the need to work on civic pedagogy to explain the role of the portfolio: “Sometimes you also have to exercise a little civic pedagogy, no longer political pedagogy, announcing in some way what the Ministry of Defense is, which is much more than the ministry that contains the armed wing of the State.”
Lazo referred to the context of the regulation of the law that allows universal access to documents from the dictatorship and linked the interest in the recent past and the search for missing detainees with the Frente Amplista governments, reiterating that these efforts began in 2006.
