Montevideo (xn) - Uruguayan president-elect Jose Mujica has announced that he will govern "for everybody" and for "a better society," local press reported on Sunday.

Mujica urged his future cabinet not "to charge account" but "to fulfill the historic responsibility of governing fine." The government "is not a toll of hate, but a deep expression of solidarity and organized commitment," the president-elect said during late Saturday's celebration of the 39th anniversary of the Ample Front Coalition. "For a political force, which has spent so many years seeking the social change, an anniversary like this is also the moment to think which our cause is, which our colors are and which our flags are," Mujica said, adding that he has been part of the "suffering and proletarian" left-wing.

The president-elect also told Saturday's gathering that the "defeated" were not "those who stop fighting" because the defeat "is a moral and psychological state of accepting the circumstances with passivity." Mujica, a former guerilla fighter imprisoned during the military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, is scheduled to take office on March 1st. Incumbent Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez will leave his office with a historic popular support of 80 percent.