The Yes campaign cost “approximately $600,000”affirmed the president of the Broad Front (FA), Fernando Pereira.
on the radio show Double clickadmitted that “defeat is painbeyond the fact that “it can be said that it is a favorable result” for the Yes, “we had an objective that we could not meet”.
Regarding financing, on the side of the left coalition, Pereira pointed out that they did “with bonds that the sectors bought with an additional contribution of US$0.70 for each voter in the internal election” and “later with a little indebtedness”. In addition, he pointed out the “contribution that the show that took place at the Velodrome that left some $60,000”
While “The trade union movement adopted a decision of one dollar per affiliate and that allowed it to cover this fund”he explained.
When asked about the FA’s resources for the campaign, he assured that “no resources”, because they were allocated to the last campaigns. In any case, he indicated that the party has no debts and that, in any case, there were no resources for a campaign like the No campaign, which could be asked if it was not “abusive in terms of the use of minutes”, according Pereira.
“If you look at the minutes of advertising used by No, you clearly realize that it is a campaign that should be have cost four or five times more than the Yes”, he indicated. For the former president of the PIT-CNT, this was a disadvantage not in the quality of communication, but in quantity.
admission of defeat
Regarding the accusations that the President of the Republic was not contacted on Sunday to accept defeat, Pereira assured that “it is not true”. He explained that the Yes Commission decided that he had to speak beforehand and that it was difficult to get there, therefore during the act in El Gaucho he admitted that it would be difficult for them to win, but that “he still did not know.” However, on his part, they later went to the PIT-CNT, where they consulted their technicians about the projection and they told him that the result was finished.
As narrated in Double click, the vice president of the union organization, José Lorenzo López, told them that Álvaro Delgado “had been looking for them” and they immediately called him. They told the secretary of the Presidency to ask Lacalle Pou that they had not reached the votes. They then set about writing the communiqué acknowledging defeat.
“I start from the basis that Delgado should not have been clear to Lacalle, because I know Lacalle’s loyalty on those issuesPereira said.
In Executive Tower, after knowing the results, the President of the Republic had said that about Pereira: “He didn’t call me. Álvaro Delgado called him and found him. Apparently they would make a statement acknowledging, but we have no news. We’ve been looking for him.”
Pereira said to Double click that later that night he spoke with Lacalle Pou.
Comparison with Martínez and Mujica’s statements
The president of the FA denied comparisons with the presidential candidate, Daniel Martínez, in 2019 when at midnight on November 24 he did not recognize a defeat that was inevitable. Pereira said that it was different because he “was not a candidate for anything,” but was speaking on behalf of a Commission.
