"You shouldn't leave a single space on the right"

Montevideo, June 16 (EFE). – Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile and the emphatic approach that “not one space should be left unopposed by the Right” in a world where fake news moves the needle unabashedly focused intervention in Uruguay’s Pablo Iglesias, former Secretary General of United We Can.

Iglesias, who was invited to speak Thursday in Montevideo by the Libre Serigny Foundation, a training school for Uruguay’s leftist Fronte Amplio (FA) coalition, alluded in his speech to Borek’s victory and the challenges facing his government.

Specifically, Iglesias said that, from what was “removed” by the return of the left to power in that country 50 years after the fall of Salvador Allende, at the hands of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, he began to follow the news of Chilean women. On a daily basis, thus came up with reflection.

He concluded that although it had managed to become a government, the Chilean left had begun to develop an agenda for change that was largely marked by issues of the “media right”, something he observed to be extrapolated to left-wing CEOs in any country.

He stressed that “we live in a time when the dominance of the great ideological representatives of the time, media actors, is largely conservative”, expressing his surprise to see that this is also happening in Uruguay, which highlighted his left as relatively “the most supportive person”. socially and electorally in the world.

The president of the Institute of Republic and Democracy, who took questions from a panel of academics and FA mentors – including Fernando Pereira, head of the political force that ruled the country between 2005 and 2020 – noted that we must fight the right in all areas.

“You must not leave a single space without disagreement over the right; all spaces must be contested, even sports, all, and not a single space without ideological fighting. I think being clear about that and getting out of the logic of partisan confrontation (…) is one of the keys ‘, was sentenced.

During a talk entitled “Political Communication and Social Networks in the Post-Truth Era”, the former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, who left all his political positions after the electoral defeat to the Community of Madrid in 2021, encouraged the FA, who believes he can rule Uruguay once other.

“You have a social material to go beyond what has been achieved in many countries because of your electoral reference and your apparent electoral power, which will soon rule the country again,” he said before the audience who watched it silently. , among others, former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica.

Another key to learning in this line – in addition to combating the “one hand tied” fake news that the left must do, since lies are always “effective” – is the understanding that “it is not enough to improve people’s lives” because it has no “effects.” instant ideology.