The number three of the Foreign Ministry until yesterday will occupy the position until the return of President Luis Lacalle Pou of the United States.
The until now general director of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diego Escuder, He was appointed as interim chancellor by the incumbent president Beatriz Argimón, while the president Luis Lacalle Pou fulfills its international agenda in USA.
The official who has the best chance of holding the position long term is the ambassador of Uruguay in Argentina, Carlos Enciso, as confirmed after the acceptance of the resignation of Francisco Bustilloafter audios were released that implicate him in attitudes that hindered the investigation regarding the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker. Sebastian Marset. As part of the decision, the vice chancellor will remain in office Nicolas Albertoni.
shield He is an ambassador and has a degree and master’s degree in International Relations. According to the government, he has experience as coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations, the International Politics Teaching Group and the Master’s Degree in International Law of the Udelar, In addition to being a Grade 4 teacher of Public International Law and the Catholic University of Uruguay.
In addition, he was a member of Promotion and Entry Tribunals to the Diplomatic Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; He served as Head of Human Resources of the Parliament of the Mercosur and as Parliamentary Advisor in International matters.
Ache’s statements that sparked controversy
The former vice chancellor Carolina Ache was the one who released audios to the Prosecutor’s Office that unleashed a scandal of proportions and compromised several leaders, but mainly the recently resigned Bustillo, which is why the Justice Department decided in the last few hours to open a new criminal investigation different from the one carried out by the delivery of the passport to Marset.
Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel, Another of those mentioned in the scandal, maintained on Monday that there was “no intention in hiding” his communications with Ache, although the conversations that emerged indicate the opposite.
Meanwhile, leaders of the ruling party and the opposition hope that in the next few hours more definitions will be produced and from some sectors they are asking for more resignations within the government.
Source: Ambito
