Surprisingly summoned by his wife, the former vice president Lucía Topolanskythe former president of Uruguay José ‘Pepe’ Mujica (2010 – 2015) reappeared in public at the closing ceremony of the electoral campaign of his political sector with a message: “we must work for hope.”
Towards the end of the act of Popular Participation Movement (MPP), a sector of the left coalition Wide Front (FA), in which a speech by Topolanskyand before the presidential candidate for the FA, Yamandú Orsithe former senator surprised with an unexpected introduction.
Talking about how – due to the fragile state of health of Mujica– could not participate in the campaign for the elections on October 27, Topolansky He said that sometimes “crazy ideas” occurred to him, such as organizing “a gigantic bicycle platoon” that would add workers, young people, academics and “veterans” coming together in an “immense mass.”
“But the idea couldn’t be because we were missing a cyclist and we started waiting and we kept waiting,” he said before inviting Bears and announce with him at his side: «You know what? The last cyclist arrived and is here, here he comes,” alluding to the former president Mujica.
«It is the first time in the last 40 years that I do not participate in an electoral campaign while the rest are there and I do it because I am fighting with death, at the end of the game, absolutely convinced and conscious, but I had to come here today, so “they symbolize,” he explained. Mujica.
«I am an old man who is very close to retreating from where he will not return, but I am happy because you are there, because when my arms leave there will be thousands of arms replacing the fight and all my life I said that the best leaders are those who They leave a bar that surpasses them with an advantage,” he added.
Thus, while he mentioned that today he is alive because of his “partner” and “another woman”, who is his doctor, he insisted that the “fight” to which, he said, he dedicated his life accompanied by Topolansky “it continues” and reflected that the new generations “are going to experience a change in the world that humanity has not known.”
«Intelligence is going to be as important as capital, which means that tertiary training is going to prevail (…) That is why we have to fight for development, to have the economic means that can be put into the heads of those who come,” he indicated.
This “is the biggest challenge that the country has,” remarked the former governor, who is away from the campaign due to his radiotherapy treatment against cancer and subsequent admissions to the hospital to treat its digestive consequences.
To face this challenge, he noted, “you have to talk to the entire country, not have an Executive closed in on itself” and get the political forces to agree on “four or five national things to fight it.”
«No to hatred, no to confrontation. “We have to work for hope,” he summarized before adding “I have to thank life, because when these arms are gone there will be thousands of arms. Thank you for existing. “See you forever.” EFE
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