Fernando Pereira evaded taxes for years while calling for them to be raised.

After the circus of the funeral of the terrorist JoséMujica, it is necessary to highlight a news item that went almost unnoticed due to the matter of the departmental and municipal elections on May 11.
 
None other than the president of the Frente Amplio, the political force of Yamandú Orsi that governs the country, evaded taxes for many years in a chalet in the Buenos Aires resort near Punta del Este. 

Eternal Union Leave 

Pereira, 59 years old, had a very long union career in the PIT-CNT, the Frente Amplio union center. 

As an employee of the ANEP - Primary Education Council, he had a position as an elevator operator but did not attend work for decades.

He himself confirmed it to Orlando Pettinati in a radio interview a few years ago. 

He did not attend work because he enjoyed union leave. But of course, he collected his salary every month. 

This means he was a public employee. His salary was paid by taxpayers with their taxes, but he never attended work, taking advantage of the union leave. 

President of the Frente Amplio

A few years ago, he went from presiding over the union center to being directly the president of the Frente Amplio.

During the government of LacallePou (2020 - 2025), he deployed a malicious opposition full of lies with almost destabilizing behaviors.

For example, when he led the referendum against the LUC (Urgent Consideration Law), deploying a media terrorism campaign with blatant lies, such as that if the LUC was not repealed, public education would be privatized.

A total and absolute nonsense, but many people believed it. 

Pereira the Tax Evader

Between 2015 and 2021, he did not regularize his vacation home in the Buenos Aires resort of Maldonado, neither before the Cadastre nor before the Municipality of Maldonado, thus evading taxes while serving as president of the PIT-CNT.

He began the procedures at the end of 2021 and mid-2022, after Ignacio Álvarez showed him the documentation that proved his irregularities.

And only this May, with the scandal unleashed by the evading officials, did Pereira catch up with the Primary Tax he owed from last year.

It should be noted that Pereira caught up with his taxes not out of honesty, but because the journalist IgnacioÁlvarez warned him a few years ago, in private, that he had confidential information that he was a tax evader. 

Warned of the situation, it is logical that Pereira tried to catch up with the payment.

Other Frente Amplio Evaders

CeciliaCairo, Minister of Housing of the MPP, had to resign because she evaded taxes for decades and had four houses on an unregularized plot.

When Cairo's evasion came to the press, she lied blatantly to justify herself, but was finally forced to resign.

The Rodrigo Arim Case

The former rector of the University of the Republic and current director of the Office of Planning and Budget is also a tax evader. 

It was revealed that his spectacular chalet in the Solís resort in Maldonado was built in a totally irregular manner and that he did not pay the corresponding taxes. 

The one who broke the news was once again the journalist Ignacio Álvarez on the program La Pecera of Azul FM.

The difference is that Arim did not resign. Even though he evaded taxes, including the Primary Education tax intended for the poorest children, he continues in his position as if nothing had happened.

Pereira Must Give Explanations

After the elections and Mujica's funeral, the president of the Frente Amplio should face the public and explain why his vacation home in a resort near Punta del Este went many years without paying taxes. 

He only caught up with his tax obligations when warned by journalist Álvarez.

Otherwise, surely until today Fernando Pereira would still be evading taxes calmly.

Meanwhile, thousands of Uruguayan taxpayers make sacrifices every month to pay their tax obligations, Cecilia Cairo, Rodrigo Arim, and Pereira evadedtaxeswith impunity.