It was the opportunity to confirm his presidential candidates for the October 2024 elections.
Yamandú Orsi, Carolina Cosse, Andrés Lima, mayor of the departments of Canelones, Montevideo and Salto, and Senator Mario Bergara were appointed, representing the diversity within the left opposition alliance.
Congress approved the programmatic foundations that will guide the FA during the electoral cycle and its eventual governance.
It was an intensive discussion in which more than two thousand proposals emerged from the grassroots committees.
“This extensive, in-depth and comprehensive program is part of an intense collective building process,” said Carolina Cosse for her part.
He highlighted the need to establish a truth table to address the problem of enforced disappearances and the crimes of the last dictatorship.
He also committed to taking action to eradicate child poverty. “We live in a country where the hard core of poverty is infantilized and feminized,” he said.
Pre-candidate Andrés Lima addressed the issue of insecurity “and the starvation wages introduced by this neoliberal and right-wing government.”
“It is clear to us that the FA is the tool of change and transformation. We have to go out and explore our country and if each of us gets one more, it is clear that the FA will return in 2024,” he predicted.
The same optimism was expressed by Senator Bergara, who believed that this political force had learned its lesson after the electoral defeat in 2019.
“You underestimate the political force capable of developing the most progressive proposals,” said Yamandú Orsi, referring to the ruling party’s speech.
“They will leave us an even more unequal, unjust, dark and unsafe country,” he continued confrontational.
He added that “we will face this injustice, this inequality with more solidarity” and that “we will add humility, courage and our republican vocation to this monarchical and arrogant way of directing the destinies of a country.”
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