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While the Electoral Court advances with the counting of the votes, militants of the “NO” Command meet from 9:00 p.m. in the Plaza Independencia to wait for the results of the referendum against 135 articles of the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC) and the “YES” Command mobilize around the monument of El Gaucho, next to the esplanade of the Montevideo City Hall.
“I don’t know how they will explain it, with all the power, with the press conference, with all the media, with the whole structure in their favor, we made them an even game and with 15 more minutes, we won it for sure,” emphasized the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, in his speech on the podium located on July 18, and described as “feathering” what the militants did.
“Uruguayans have shown that half of us are on this side. What ruler would not listen to one half with attention and sensitivity?” the leader asked.
“It is something rarely seen, against all odds and polls. At this time they cannot say that the “NO” won, because there is nothing more powerful than a people struggling, transforming. There is nothing and no one more powerful”, He added when minutes passed 22 hours.
In addition, he indicated that they are already thinking about Monday morning. “Of course we have to think about tomorrow and we are already thinking about it now, when we say thank you Uruguayan people for having brought us here,” she said.
“A favorable or unfavorable electoral result will never be the end of our fight because we fight every day,” Pereira emphasized and concluded by saying that when asked what he feels at this moment, he answers:
when they ask me what we feel? a great joy that they have accompanied us in a transit of more than a year and a half. unity, unity and more unity.
For its part, Elbia Pereira, general secretary of the PIT-CNT, considered that “today is a holiday” and that they celebrate “this Uruguayan democracy”. “And what is going to happen tomorrow? We are going to be talking again with neighbors, co-workers and defending democracy. This is how the Uruguayan people builds,” she added.
“We have to celebrate this great result,” he added.
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