The Executive Secretariat of Broad Front (FA) met yesterday to analyze the next steps in the face of the situation generated in Big Jumpwhich caused the resignation of its president due to accusations of direct hiring in the Joint Technical Commission (CTM); Given this, the president of the opposition coalition in Uruguay, Fernando Pereiraassured that the Ministry of Economy “was left in the wrong position” for making the correct reviews.
Yesterday the Wide Front received former members of the CTM to discuss the situation generated around the accusations of political patronage that caused the resignation of its president, Carlos Albisu. In that sense, Pereira assured that “the action of the entire Joint Technical Commission of the Uruguayan delegation has been a shame” and that resources were used “just as Senator (Sergio) Botana said, as if he were Santa Claus.”
On the other hand, Pereira referred to Albisu’s resignation and assured that it is unthinkable that he would resign and leave the problem to the CTM since “the problem that was generated for Big Jump “Of the 200 million, 80 million were used to pay these people who hitchhiked.” In that sense, the president of the FA remarked that “the Ministry of Economy “It is in the wrong position because it did not make a single review of how the 200 million additional amount was going to be spent.”
Albisu’s statements during his resignation
Last week, the then president of the Uruguayan CTM announced his resignation and admitted that “we have surely made mistakes,” although he stressed that those errors occurred “within the law.” The member of the National Party (P.N.) called a press conference in Leap to make public his decision to leave the CTM, after President Luis Lacalle Pou referred to the situation.
Albisu He admitted to the press: “Surely we made mistakes, but we always stayed within the law.” Along the same lines, he questioned an “opportunistic use” on the part of the Wide Front to “attack” the government.
“There is a greater good here and that is what we are taking care of with this,” said the leader, in reference to not coloring the management of the organization with suspicion. Multicolor Coalition. Regarding his political future, he warned: “We are going to continue being there, from the plain.”
An interpellation at the door
The questioning the ministers of Economy and Finance (MEF), Azucena Arbeleche, and of Foreign Relations, Francisco Bustillo will take place on October 3, with the support of the Broad Front, but also of Town meeting. In that sense, the leader of the sector belonging to the Multicolor Coalition, Guido Manini Ríos, He also insisted on conducting an audit.
The reasons are two: on the one hand, the hiring of councilors from the National Party that resulted in the direct entry of 35 people in three years to charges that should have been for contest; On the other hand, the allocation of an additional budget item for 200 million pesos – which, although since the MEF They indicated that it was for “operating costs”from the opposition they point out that the destiny was the high salaries of those hired irregularly.
Source: Ambito
