The two-time President of the Republic, Julio María Sanguinetti, exposed as usual in his column of the “Friday Mail”.
There, the former president spoke about what the departure of Ernesto Talvi “national candidate” from the Colorado Party meant, about the luc and the validity of your party.
Sanguinetti began by recalling that after “the departure of the man who had been the national candidate, naturally there was a time of uneasiness.” A time of “regret, of a certain emptiness, to the extent that national habits include always thinking about candidates.”
“The work of our ministers and undersecretaries, legislators and presidents and vice presidents of state companies, however, was showing the presence of a party that acted within the government with the constructive spirit of the community. As said, a loyal partner. At the same time, the party authorities responded at the height of the circumstances.
He also blurted out that an adverse result at the referendum polls could have meant a strong blow. At the same time, he highlighted that there is “an opposition attitude that does not assume defeat and continues to invoke a popular majority that it does not possess. Nothing is recognised.”
“The organic functioning has been active and intelligent, with an exemplary spirit of fellowship.” “Not of institutional stability, naturally, but of the capacity to execute fundamental plans that have already provided results in citizen security and are beginning to be glimpsed in the great educational challenge imposed by the civilizational change we are experiencing.”
Between the “unquestionable” and the “capacity” maintained Sanguinetti
“The unquestionable fact is that he did not reach 50% and with the blank votes, notoriously favorable to that option, he reached 51.3%, compared to 48.7% for yes. Without juggling numbers, it is clear that the third round of the election ratified the second, that is, the victory of the coalition. For the same advantage, or a small difference in favor”.
On the road to 2024, he expressed that “Co-religionists with plenty of capacity abound. We can proudly say that our paintings are among the best. But the popular ´tirón´, as the Spanish say, is something else. That will be measured at the moment and behind whoever shows it best, we will all be there to represent what the party is: social responsibility, sense of the State, republican secularism, administrative honesty, vision of the world”.
