Surprisingly summoned by his wife, former vice president Lucía Topolansky, the former president of Uruguay Jose Mujica reappeared in public at the closing ceremony of election campaign of his political sector with a message: “We must work for hope.
Towards the end of the event of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), a sector of the left coalition Wide Front (FA), in which a speech by Topolansky was scheduled, and before the presidential candidate for the FA, Yamandú Orsi, spoke, the former senator surprised with an unexpected introduction.
Talking about how (by the Mujica’s fragile state of health) could not participate in the campaign for the elections on October 27, Lucia 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 Yamandu Orsi and announce with him at his side: “You know what? The last cyclist arrived and he’s here, here he comes,” alluding to former president Pepe Mujica.
“It is the first time in the last 40 years that I have not participated 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 symbolize you,” Mujica explained.
“I am an old man who is very close to retreating from where he cannot return, but I am happy because you are here, 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 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 dedicated his life accompanied by Topolansky) “continues” and ventured that The new generations “are going to experience a change in the world that humanity has not known.”
“The intelligence It 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 treatment of radiotherapy against cancer and subsequent admissions to the hospital to treat its consequences at the digestive level.
To face this challenge, he noted, “we must 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 hate, no to confrontation. We must work for hope“, he summarized before adding: “I have to thank life, because when these arms leave there will be thousands of arms.” And he said goodbye with an emotional: “See you always, I give you my heart. And thank you.”
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