Record public investment in infrastructure and waterways, resources for housing and housing solutions, sanitation and final waste disposal, and renewable energy were some of the initiatives detailed by President Luis Lacalle Pou in his oratory for the five years of the Center for Studies to the development.
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"Let's take advantage of these times to make important reforms," he said.
During his speech, Wednesday 10 at the facilities of the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU), the president asserted that one of the concepts he promotes is "that not even one Uruguayan should be given for lost", a concept based on arriving with policies public to the whole country, he described.
In addition to the president, the secretary and deputy secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado and Rodrigo Ferrés, respectively, and the ministers Pablo Mieres, Javier García, Francisco Bustillo, Luis Heber, Fernando Mattos, Azucena Arbeleche, Irene Moreira, Daniel Salinas and José participated.
Luis Falero. Parliamentarians, ambassadors from countries with diplomatic representation in ours and representatives of business chambers also attended.
At the beginning of his speech, Lacalle Pou stressed that Uruguayan politicians do not have refundational complexes and recalled that his administration will continue to promote policies of previous governments, such as, for example, the CAIF Plan, the Port Law or the Plan Ceibal.
He pointed out that this construction is also part of the legal certainty and predictability that characterize Uruguay.
The president advocated for changes in the governance of education, teacher training and curricula, so that the education sector is a tool for personal improvement for students, an issue that he considered a battle that cannot be left sideways.
He affirmed that the Uruguayan Government has been very loyal and frank with the rest of the Mercosur countries.
"Brazil's decision on the common external tariff only reaffirms that Mercosur needs to modernize and that Uruguay is heading towards more flexibility with China and other countries," he said.
In this year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, the president continued, the engines of the economy were kept on with tax measures for small and mediumsized companies. Large housing and investment projects were also promoted, which made Uruguay a center for receiving technological investments, he added.
The president also referred to investments in multimodal transport, the Merín lagoon and Uruguay river waterways, works on various routes and bridges in Uruguay, especially in La Charqueada, as well as investments in the final disposal of waste. in Montevideo and Canelones.
There are 190,000 Uruguayans living in unworthy conditions, he recalled. To correct this situation, he indicated, in the Accountability, it was possible to have a significant flow of funds to advance in housing solutions during these three and a half years.
It will be necessary to have the capacity to carry out works, with the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP), the ministries of Transport and Public Works and of Housing and Territorial Planning, in addition to involving the Congress of Mayors, he said.
The oratory of the executive director of the CED, Agustín Iturralde, covered competitiveness through the improvement of human capital, production, the efficiency of the internal market, infrastructure and international insertion. In addition, she pointed out social fragmentation as a challenge, an issue that must be addressed in a serious and innovative way. "For Uruguay there will be no significant progress without reforms in these areas," he summarized. ■