Walter Godoy is presented with List 36 that brings Javier García, Carlos Camy and Laura Raffo (among others) to the Senate. Of course Álvaro Delgado is the candidate for the presidency and Valeria Ripoll for the vice presidency of the Republic.
Within the framework of this short but intense electoral campaign for the national elections on October 27, Walter Godoy analyzes: “it is a difficult stop,” but I believe it is necessary to “carry out a policy of closeness to neighbors.” He considers that the much-mentioned crack “does not exist… it may be fanaticism, but for the housewife, for the neighbor who opens the doors of his business, for the entrepreneur, for them the crack does not exist.”
Your profile
When Walter Godoy makes his political profile, he considers himself a builder of the National Alliance sector: “I have been there since the beginning, I am not a founder, I was not there on the day the sector was founded, but since 98 or 99, I have remained in the sector. National Alliance sector. Today the expression of the National Alliance has been quite minor, but that is when the sector needs us most. So for a matter of political loyalty, a sentimental matter with Senator Carlos Daniel Camy, who have been traveling companions for so many years and also for a matter of feeling towards Jorge Larrañaga who is no longer among us, we have decided to stay in the sector; now in a larger space called Alianza País.”
The candidacy for the deputation is due to the fact that “we understood that it was our time, after so many years of being in the political arena. We are always around the corner, with or without charge. We have always visited the department, we are knowledgeable about the department, I consider myself a politician of proximity. I come from the social side, before dedicating myself to politics I was a member of the Youth Ministry, the Scout Movement of Uruguay, and the Rotarac group. I have belonged to the social sectors since I was young and then I entered politics. Then I understood that it was a nice opportunity, a great challenge, knowing that there are very good candidates within the National Party.”
Godoy’s priorities
Asked what his priorities would be, Godoy listed several and said: “sport is an issue that in the department of Colonia we have to promote differently, I know many cases of frustrated athletes, little kids who initially dedicated themselves to sports and therefore different circumstances did not make it, there was a lack of attention. Public policy has to be attentive to these types of situations, because a young person or adolescent who becomes frustrated is very serious.”
He states that “there is a lack of quality sports infrastructure so that our children can develop, so that in the department of Colonia there is a career in physical education teaching, so that our athletes, once they manage to reach elite sport, feel proud, not only to carry the Uruguayan flag but also the flag of the department.”
Another issue to highlight is entrepreneurship: “We work from the departmental government in the SMEs unit, generating an entrepreneurial culture and attention to micro, small and medium-sized businesses. For this reason, we propose that entrepreneurship be a subject from an early age, in the fourth or fifth grade of school one should be generating an entrepreneurial culture, in secondary school one should talk about financial education. So that when a boy reaches the end of his career, of his life of secondary education, he will already have decided whether to continue with tertiary education, or perhaps undertake it.”
-Does there exist the so-called “rift” among Uruguayans?
Regarding the existence or not of the ‘crack’ in Uruguay, Walter Godoy comments: “I consider that no, there is no crack, what there is is fanaticism. Look, my best friends are from the left, I have direct blood relatives of mine who are from the left… I don’t think there is a crack, there is fanaticism, for example I tolerate someone calling me a facho or a white thief, I deal with all of those things. I tolerate it, there are others who don’t because fanaticism comes out. “If there were a crack it would be very sad, it would be going backwards, it would be returning to a time that does not correspond in the slightest.”
“It seems to me that the citizen, the neighbor, the one who has to get up early every day, the housewife who has to calculate what she is going to cook because if it stays within the budget, there are no cracks in the way…”
