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Weekly Report - 8 March 2012 (WR-12-10)
URUGUAY: Mujica to move on “mother of all reforms”
The style and substance of the speech President José Mujica delivered to open the new congressional session in Uruguay could hardly have been more different to that of his Argentine peer Cristina Fernández. Fernández spoke for three hours and 17 minutes in congress; Mujica, for 10 minutes and 19 seconds by radio and television broadcast. While Fernández indulged in lengthy praise of her government’s performance, Mujica acknowledged that much more needed to be done, and promised that this was the year to do it: he wants to move on education, security, infrastructure, and State reform - “the mother of all reforms” - before the next elections in 2014 start to dominate the political agenda.
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