2023-12-01 08:30:00
The Uruguayan presidentLuis Lacalle Pouassured that the liberal ideas of the president-elect, Javier Mileywill benefit Uruguay and they will bring change to the South American region.
“We believe that, under his liberal mantle, he is going to see his neighbor and say: ‘Just as I am a liberal, I want you to be free,'” the Uruguayan president said before businessmen at an event organized by the Study Center for Development (CED).
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In that line, Lacalle Pou affirmed that Uruguay does not intend “concessions or privileges”, it intends “to be free“, and added: “If they let us be free here on the way back we will stir in the world.”
Meanwhile, the president of Uruguay said that Your country must “take advantage” of the change of political atmosphere in Argentina. “We have to take advantage, as we did with President Lula, that he has behaved faithful to his word with the things we asked of him. We must do the same with Milei.”
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During the mandate of outgoing president Alberto Fernández, the relationship with his Uruguayan counterpart, Lacalle Pou, experienced moments of tension every time they had to discuss issues such as the flexibility of Mercosur.
In this framework, the arrival of Milei as elected president of Argentina could be good news for the president of the neighboring country, whose objective is to make the bloc more flexible.
“I don’t discover anything if I tell you that a different ingredient is added“said the Uruguayan president in reference to the libertarian’s inauguration.
In this way, Lacalle Pou trusts that there may be changes in the region due to the ideology of the Argentine president-elect and the comments he made during the electoral campaign.
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