He Broad Front (FA) decided to question the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heberdue to the derivations of the case of the former senator of the National Party (PN), Gustavo Penadéscharged with 22 cases linked to the sexual abuse of minors.
On Monday afternoon, the bench of senators from the opposition force forced the case with their own votes after the government supported and ignored the request for Heber resign from the ministry.
The interpellation will be based on the participation of police officials in the plot that the former senator created to hinder the case carried out by the Sexual Crimes prosecutor, Alicia Ghione.
The FA senator, José Carlos Mahíaassured through his X account (formerly Twitter) that “the minister will be questioned for a series of actions over time” that also include the case of the Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marsetand in the case of the former presidential custodian, Alejandro Astesiano.
In a more relaxed tone, the former president Jose Mujica He said at a press conference that he is “sure” that Heber will stop being a minister. “I don’t know when, but he is going to leave, because he is a political politician,” stressed the former Broad Front president.
Heber seeks to provide details about the police officers involved in the Penadés plot
On Sunday night, Heber held a meeting with the president Luis Lacalle Pou to analyze the investigation carried out by Internal Affairs, within the portfolio itself, on these police officers.
After these events, Heber He asked the Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimonan urgent meeting in the Senate to provide relevant explanations about the chaos to the legislators of the Multicolor Coalition.
According to estimates of the white senator Jorge Gandinithe minister seeks to provide details about the accusation of the former director of the penitentiary unit Santiago Vázquez, Carlos Tarocoidentified as one of the facilitators of information reserved to Gustavo Penadés.
Source: Ambito
