The National, Colorado and Independent parties they rejected the invitation formulated by the government to participate in the organization of the National Congress of Education which is expected to be carried out at the end of this year.
In a letter addressed to the Minister of Education and Culture, José Carlos Mahíathe leaders Alvaro Delgado (National Party), Andres Ojeda (Colorado Party) and Omar Rodriguez (Independent Party) considered “inconvenient to grant political legitimacy” to this instance for a number of reasons.
Among them, the consideration that it is a “inadequate instrument to fulfill consultation and advisory functions on educational policy“, according to the text accessed The Observer.
They pointed out that the design of these congresses “responds to a mostly corporate logicstructured based on organized majorities that grant predominance of strongly ideological spacesgenerating an area that tends to substitute or unduly condition the responsibilities of the Executive and Legislative powersas well as the legitimate authorities”.
They also criticized the decision of the Frente Amplio (FA) to grant binding character to what was resolved in these instances, something that was modified in the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), which established that these congresses would fulfill an advisory role.
In the government program, however, the FA undertook to restore the binding nature of what is resolved in this type of instance.
The leaders of the coalition who signed the letter addressed to Mahía —which was not supported by Cabildo Abierto— they considered that the latter “involves transferring responsibilities of elected representatives —parliamentarians and government authorities in education—towards a body that lacks direct democratic legitimacy to adopt decisive decisions.
“We consider it inconvenient to grant political legitimacy to this claim through our participation.“, they stressed and accused the Yamandú Orsi government of wanting to “indiscriminately dismantle transformations promoted in the previous government.”
Article 44 of the National Education Law created the National Education Congress, with a “plural and broad integration that reflects the different perspectives of citizens in the National Education System.”
Although the participation of political representatives is not specified, they were invited in pursuit of the representativeness that the law seeks to ensure.
