The president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, prior to the national tour that began this Wednesday the 25th in Tacuarembó, said that “the government promised us, loudly, that they were going to build us the best five years of our lives. More or less 44% of the mandate has gone by and salaries and pensions have gone down, and prices have increased substantially. It’s not that the country is a bit expensive; The country is very expensive and incomes do not grow. One hundred thousand Uruguayans eat in popular pots”, he sentenced.
Pereira recalled that the educational budget, which was a priority issue for the current administration – which signed the Uy XXI white paper – instead of growing 1% the product dropped 80 million dollars in educational spending, while poverty grew again after 16 consecutive years of decline.
“The fact that they were not going to increase fuel prices did not happen. They increased and above the CPI (Consumer Price Index). It was said that there were not going to be transfers from public companies to general income and only in UTE they transferred 116 million dollars”, he pointed out.
