The coalitionist strategy in Montevideo or, rather, the way of carrying it out is generating divisions within the Colorado Party after a councilor from that community belonging to the sector of Senator Andrés Ojeda (Unir para GROW) will vote in the Departmental Board on a series of millionaire loans for the mayor of Montevideo. After that instance, on Tuesday the 16th, deputy Adrian Juri (Vamos Uruguay) reported on his Twitter account about a meeting of the bench of Montevideo deputies with Pedro Bordaberry in which they resolved to convene “the legislators and teams of the National Party headed by Martín Lema – and the other partners of the Republican Coalition to form a working group; we want to start planning together for the Montevideo that we dream of.”
Asked by El Observador about whether his proposal was driven by the differences that arose with the loans for the capital’s mayor’s office, Juri responded: “Part of that is out there, so that these things do not happen again. But we do not want to look for rats, we want to look forward. Not only was the Colorado Party divided on that issue, there were also differences in the National Party.”
Meanwhile, the National Party awaits an “official proposal” from the Colorado Party although, in principle, there is a “positive spirit” to accept the initiative. “Our spirit is coalitionist, so we are waiting for the official proposal,” a nationalist source told El Observador regarding the proposal arising from the sector led by Pedro Bordaberry.
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But the president of the Colorado department, María Eugenia Roselló (Unite to grow) told El Observador that there will be no official proposal to the nationalists until the proposal becomes effective in the Central Executive Committee (CEN) of the party. “Come on, Uruguay is representing the CEN and it was not raised there. It has no place. It was not a formal proposal, it was on Twitter. They have to go to the CEN to make the proposal. They are always welcome, the doors are open,” he stated.
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The vote by the red mayor Federico Paganini and the whites Nicolás Hernández and Joaquín Campos, in the Departmental Board of Montevideo to approve the trusts requested by Mayor Mario Bergara It generated crosses within the National and Colorado parties.
The sector led by Bordaberry issued a statement rejecting what had been released earlier by the Departmental Executive Committee (CED), made up of a majority of the Ojeda sector, Unir para Crecer.
Those opposition councilors voted with the Frente Amplio to approve four trusts for US$ 260 million in total for sanitation, streets, sidewalks and cleaning. The sanitation bill was the only one that came out unanimously.
While the CED issued a statement on Wednesday supporting this action, the Bordaberry He questioned this vote. “The vote of the aforementioned councilor not only does not represent the feelings of our political sectorbut it constitutes, above all, a serious damage to the instrument that Colorados, nationalists, lobbyists and independents have built together to change Montevideo: the Republican Coalition,” says the Vamos Uruguay statement.
On the other hand, the National Party board sent the rebel councilors to the Ethics Commission.
