The Secretary of the Presidency questioned the statement issued at a press conference by Fernando Pereira.
The Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgadocriticized the Frente Amplio (FA) after the opposition force suggested that there is a link between drug trafficking and politics.
Through his Fernando Pereiraduring the press conference this Sunday, where the FA was dissatisfied with the government’s responses after the scandal resulting from the case of the delivery of a passport to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marsetwhich led to the resignation of several members of the government, including the former chancellor Francisco Bustillo and the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber.
Slim He assured that his concern lies in “the suspicion of the Frente Amplio about the link between drug trafficking and the politics of the Uruguay“, after Pereira maintained that his party “cannot allow drug trafficking to get into politics.” “Not everything is worth it,” the presidential secretary concluded in his message.
“We are going to complain when our institutions are invaded”
Pereira He stated that, after the events, “we must legislate on transparency, otherwise we are going to complain when our institutions are invaded by an economic power of this magnitude,” in reference to drug trafficking.
In addition, Pereira pointed out that the Ministry of Interior had “clear” information that Uruguay was about to give a passport to a “dangerous” and “heavy” drug trafficker, and that “his release would be a disaster,” so he had to have resorted to the Interpoland not to an exchange of conversations with the hierarchs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE).
“Not allowing (the interference of drug trafficking in politics) requires clear parliamentary actions,” said Pereira, who added that “there is no longer any doubt that we must have a law on the financing of political parties, and whoever is blocking it will have to explain to Uruguayan society why it is hindered,” said the Frente Amplista.
Source: Ambito
