“I have the intimate conviction that they have no legal responsibility,” the president said at a press conference.
President Luis Lacalle Pou reported that he accepted the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber; the undersecretary Guillermo Maciel; and the presidential communications advisor Roberto Lafluf; when giving a press conference in Executive Tower to communicate the decisions he made in the face of the scandal that was unleashed by the delivery of the passport to Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, which initially led to the resignation of the now former chancellor Francisco Bustillo.
After receiving leaders of the Multicolor Coalition and to the president of Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, Lacalle Pou speaks about what happened, accompanied by the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado. The president said he had the “intimate conviction that both the Minister of the Interior, the Undersecretary, Bustillo and the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache They have no legal responsibility” for the passport, which he said “should have been delivered.”
When giving an account of what happened, the president admitted that he requested that the meeting be called, of which he released audios. ache and said that it was “to have a single line of work and action,” while clarifying: “I did not participate.”
Lacalle Pou referred to the resignation of Bustillo “to release the government” and confirmed: “Today the resignations of Minister Luis Alberto Heber, Undersecretary Guillermo Maciel and Roberto Lafluf, who does not have government powers and powers, simply advise me were completed.”
And he added: “By this I mean that the responsibilities belong to the president, the ministers and the undersecretaries.” “I accepted the three offers and they will settle in court if a case is opened. “They will know how to defend their honor and their person,” he said.
Lacalle Pou highlighted the institutions of Uruguay
Accepting some questions during the press conference, Lacalle Pou He ruled out that it was an institutional crisis. “If that were the case, it would not be resolved by the very resources of democracy and Constitution”, he posed.
The president stressed that “the passport had to be given even knowing that it was “Marset” and insisted that in Uruguay “there is institutionality like in few countries in the world, with Justice acting, condemning and prosecuting or not.”
In any case, after a day full of meetings and activities, the president insisted on supporting his former leaders and specified that “as of Monday, the resignations will be presented and they will be accepted.”
Source: Ambito
