At the PIT-CNT headquarters, the command for the Yes to the repeal of the 135 articles of the LUC made its first statements after the first projections published by the Usina de Percepción Ciudadana. At a press conference, the president of the National Federation of Secondary Education Teachers (Fenapes) and member of the Commission for the Yes José Olivera said that there is a “technical tie”and argued that the results they show a “political message” to the government.
“You can’t keep turning your back on half the population”expressed Olivera, who also believes that joining the Yes discredits that the movement against the LUC has been a “marketer”.
From the Yes command they will wait for 80% of the circuits scrutinized by the Electoral Court to take a definitive number of the referendum, as he learned The Observer. As well they wait for the observed votes to define the election.
Olivera called “celebrate” the democratic instancecarried out in a “complex plane” of a pandemic and a “Strong questioning of institutions”. “It was not without problems, obstacles, along the way”added the trade unionist. However, he called to be “patient until the final result”.
Before Olivera’s word, Amira Fagúndez, from the Federation of University Students (FEUU), he highlighted the increase in the “fabric” of the popular field, which “has grown and been strengthened.”
