This Tuesday, the Presidency will send to the Senate the request for authorization so that Yamandu Orsi attend the “Global Progressive Mobilization” summoned by the Spanish president Pedro Sanchez for April 18 in Barcelona, as confirmed to The Observer Executive Tower fountains.
The sending of the permission scheduled for Tuesday coincides with the ordinary session of the Senate. The Colorado Senator Andres Ojeda announced that he will not vote on the request, although the Wide Front has enough votes to approve it.
As reported The Observer On March 13, Orsi has decided to travel to that summit since the last meeting of the forum “In defense of democracy” that took place in September of last year within the framework of the UN High Level Week, on the sidelines of which a tribute to the deceased also took place. Jose Mujica that Orsi had proposed in Chile to the progressive presidents.
The Secretary of the Presidency, Alejandro Sánchez, defended last week that it is “natural for presidents to have relationships with other heads of state” and assured that “he is not going to participate in a political-partisan event but rather in a summit where the central theme is democracy.”
Among those who have already confirmed their presence are the president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, that of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, that of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum and that of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley and the head of the European Council, António Costa.
Asked about this by the press this Monday in Treinta y Tres, President Orsi said that he will not attend “the meeting of progressive leaders” in which European supporters will participate, but that it will be exclusively in the area of ”Democracy Always” which meets for the third time since the first summit in Santiago de Chile with Gabriel Boric – now former president -, Petro, Lula and Sánchez
“The President of the Republic cannot participate in acts of a political nature, even when they are intended to be presented as international bodies. The Constitution of the Republic expressly prohibits this in its article 77, paragraph 5, because he is the Head of State. If he does so, he will be directly violating the Constitution,” Colorado deputy Felipe Schipani had accused.
