Some politicians from the Multicolor Coalition used their social networks to comment on the removal of the prosecutor.
After today, the court prosecutor, Juan Gomezwill confirm at a press conference the removal of the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati of the Astesian caseand his transfer to the 16th shift Flagrancia Prosecutor’s Office, the comments of some members of the government coalition did not wait.
The senator of National Party (PN), Jorge GandiniHe assured that he thinks “unusual” that the court prosecutor move a prosecutor “at the request of a defense attorney”in reference to Diego Camanothe lawyer of the ex adviser of the Ministry of Interior, Gustavo Loyalwho denounced Fossati for “non-compliance with functional obligations”, and asked for his removal from office for not clarifying why he was investigating Leal.
According to Gandini, that Gómez has relegated Fossati “is not right”, since the prosecutor “does not belong to the Power of attorney”, but rather “represents the people” having “the function of accusing or not”. For the nationalist legislator, the withdrawal will end “influencing the final results of the investigation”due to the time that Fossati had dedicated to the case, at the same time that he slipped “Maybe Leal is celebrating” something that “is not good for the independence of the system”.
“It is not a correct decision,” said former prosecutor Gustavo Zubía
On the other hand, the ex-prosecutor and current deputy for the Colorado party, Gustavo Zubiamaintained that “it is not a correct decision”, and remarked that only the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pouis who can “put order”since there is a Multicolor Coalition that “She’s tired of this kind of news”and that “values are at stake here, not investments.”
In turn, he assured that you have to be “watchful” with Leal, since “in addition to denouncing you and getting angry, he manages to change the prosecutor”, “only in Uruguay”, he finished. In this line, he threw darts at the internal government by assuring that he “they annoy opponents when they obtain unfair and irrational advantages”but what “travel companions annoy more when they do not act against it”.
Likewise, the senator of the PN, sebastian da silvawent further to indicate that prosecution lived “the culture of cancellation” where “Anything goes as long as it covers up leftist leaders”and “the speeches of sorority and defending Justice were forgotten by some,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
