The Secretary of the Presidency described the opposition force’s criticism as “nonsense” after “the management of the previous ministers.”
After being consulted at a press conference about the criticism of the government by the broad front (FA) in matters of insecurity, the Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado, said the current administration inherited “a disastrous situation” with “rise of all crimes” during the three governments of the FA.
The FA’s questions about public security skyrocketed after the murder of a Ta-Ta supermarket manager in the last few hours. Regarding this, Delgado affirmed that security is an issue “of absolute priority for the government”, and described as “contradiction” the position of the FA after having endorsed for 15 years “the management of the previous ministers“.
Delgado recalled that the first measure of the president Luis Lacalle Pou was to meet with the 19 departmental police chiefs “to give them very clear instructions on the subject of public security.” According to the presidential official, “all crime is going down, and they dropped considerably“.
“He Ministry of Interior it is deepening its policy linked to public security to give guarantees to the people”, he commented. However, he acknowledged that “the FA has every right to question” the government, despite not agreeing with the position taken.
The drop in homicides “is the president’s absolute priority”
The presidential secretary explained that “there have been notorious losses in these three years of robbery, theft and rustling”, and “minor losses of homicides”, this being the subject “absolute priority of the President of the Republic“, as well as “of the government all”.
The performance of the Lacalle Pou government in terms of public security is widely questioned by society, which disapproves of it by 60%, showed the latest poll by the consultancy factum.
35% of those surveyed have a “bad” opinion and 25% “very bad”, totaling a negative opinion of 60%. While only 4% have a “very good” opinion about the performance and 31% “good”, totaling 35% positive opinions. The remaining 5% have a “neutral” opinion or no opinion.
Source: Ambito
