While the focus of attention in Uruguay is in the departmental and municipal elections that have their development this Sunday, the president Yangines orsi He talked about is a state of health of José “Pepe” Mujica and confirmed that “It’s wrong”.
Before casting his vote in Canelones, Orsi faced the microphones and said he visited Mujica during the last days and saw him badly. “That one is complicated (by Pepe), but he is taking care of. I was on Thursday or Friday at home and we were talking. We were talking for a long time, But it is complicated“He stressed.
In early January Mujica said that cancer had expanded throughout his body and that The treatment was stopped That I was developing: “I’m dying, my cycle has finished,” he confessed at the time. Precisely, Pepe is one of the great absent in this new electoral contest. And it is estimated that it will not vote either.
The one who did vote is his wife and former vice president, Lucía Topolansky, but opted for Do not make statementsaccording to the newspaper El País de Uruguay.
-In one of his last public appearances at the end of March, Mujica was honored in Montevideo during a commemorative act for the 54 years of the first massive act of the Broad Front, and sitting in a wheelchair in the front row ended up exciting himself to tears.
The Frente Amplio, which ruled between 2005 and 2020 and is again to the power of Yamandú Orsi, took advantage of the act held in the esplanade of the Municipality of Montevideo to commemorate the first of the force – which took place there on March 26, 1971 – to pay tribute to Mujica.
With just over 2.7 million people enabled to vote, Uruguay celebrates its departmental and municipal elections this Sunday, in which the new intendants of the 19 departments (provinces) will be chosen, as well as the mayors of their respective municipalities.
The electoral cut reported that there are a total of 2,724,462 voters, who can participate in the mandatory vote elections, which has its development from 8 to 19.30 Uruguay time. In this election act, the conservative opposition, defeated in the presidential ones, will seek to strengthen in most departments of the country.
