In the last hours, a strong controversy was generated within the National Party, due to the fact that the mayor Juan López ignored the party discipline imposed by the whites and voted together with the Broad Front bench in favor of a trust of 44 million for works in Canelones.
Mayor López received harsh criticism from national legislators, and was immediately expelled first from the National Alliance and then from the National Party. All this in a matter of hours. In addition, the white authorities asked him for the bench so as not to lose a vote in the Departmental Board.
From the National Party, he was also “crying to heaven” for considering that Mayor Orsi had “bought” Mayor Pérez’s vote, as Senator Sebastián da Silva denounced. Something that both the Canarian departmental chief and the seat itself denied.
The devil knows by devil, but…
According to popular wisdom, there is a saying that goes: “The devil knows for being a devil, but he knows more for being old”. Perhaps this can be applied to the letter to the expressions made in the last few hours by the experienced mayor of Durazno, Carmelo Vidalín, a man of “a thousand battles”, who came out in defense of Orsi, despite the fact that this may provoke a “slap on the wrist” and of which he is aware.
“Do you think that what Orsi did, I have not done? Or is there a mayor who has not done so? Or at the level of the Executive Power that has not been done? I, as mayor, have done it on several occasions”, Vidalín confessed to the press, without any euphemisms.
And he clarified: “I am talking about what my friend, Mayor Yamandú Orsi, did to tempt a mayor or several mayors. I have done it too. We all do it, and the councilors too. Politics implies dialogue, negotiation. Here we are not talking about someone being sold, someone being bought. No”.
He added that later, yes, “there is the conscience of each one of those who go against their party.”
“We want to sanction a mayor. I think there have been and will be other situations that will be hard, difficult, cruel. So, before acting, the first thing we have to do is look inward and try to find in ourselves a mirror of our own conscience,” Vidalín recommended in statements to the media.
Likewise, he acknowledged that with his statements “more than a slap on the wrist” can be linked.
“But I think we have made a bonfire from a little ash that is there on the floor,” sentenced the head of government of Durazno, pointing to the floor with his characteristic and popular histrionics.
