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Former president Lacalle Pou also took part in the event and closed the proceedings. It was one of his first party appearances since he left office. Photo: Gastón Britos / EFE
The president of the board of Uruguay's Partido Nacional, Álvaro Delgado, on Sunday called on members of the country's main opposition force to “build the history of the future” and set a return to government in 2030 as the first objective, so that Uruguay can “find direction again.”
Delgado spoke at the central ceremony marking the party's 190th anniversary, held outside the party headquarters in Montevideo's Plaza Matriz. Founded on August 10, 1836, the Partido Nacional is Uruguay's oldest political party and one of the longest-running in Latin America.
“The first milestone of that history of the future that we all have to build together is to govern the country again from 2030, so that Uruguay finds direction again and so that people have hope again,” he told lawmakers, mayors, local councilors and party members who traveled from across the country.
