“… 25. The lack of coordination between the tourism unions, on the one hand, and the PIT-CNT and FA, on the other, stands in contrast not only to the harmonious ties that organized workers and the political left have had in Uruguay but also to the resistance advanced during the center-right administration of Lacalle Pou. During the most critical months of the pandemic, the PIT-CNT and the FA gathered close to 800,000 signatures to launch a mechanism of direct democracy aimed at repealing or partially annulling the government’s most important regulation: an omnibus bill known as the Urgent Consideration Act-LUC) 19.889, of July 14, 2020 (see Rossel and Monestier, 2021). In the referendum, held on March 27, 2022, the government ultimately won by a very slim margin (50 percent vs. 48.7 percent). …”