For the opposition, the country is facing a political crisis to which the government has not responded satisfactorily. The ruling party rejected the motion.
He Wide Front raised in the session that takes place in the High camera that he Marset case and its recent and controversial political and judicial derivations that led to the resignation of two ministers and an undersecretary of the nationalist kidney is debated in the chamber as a political issue. To do this, he needs the votes of the ruling party, which, for the most part, expressed their support for the president. Luis Lacalle Pou and to National Party.
“We are in a scandal”, the senator summarized Silvia Nane, who would be in charge of the eventual interpellation of the former Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, which was voided due to his resignation confirmed yesterday. The opposition legislator stated that she is facing a political crisis. “Parliament has to give clear signals to citizens. It is unacceptable that leaders of the Executive power hide information from Parliament,” he said, and asked that this be something “questioned” by all parties.
“The entire Senate has the opportunity to express itself on the gravity of all these matters. We need to advance in instruments that provide the State with protection from the influence of drug trafficking on political issues. “This requires political will and credibility, which is what is lacking right now,” he added.
The scandal unleashed by the complaints of the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache about the attempts of the leaders involved to hide and destroy documentation and evidence about the government’s knowledge of who Marset was at the time of issuing the Uruguayan passport in his name; did not culminate in the resignations of Heber, his second in the portfolio Guillermo Maciel and the chancellor Francisco Bustillo. And neither with the press conference given by the president, in which he admitted what happened and defended the good actions of the then members of his government cabinet.
For him Broad Front, The actions of the president and the government were insufficient. Under this premise they also planned for the Senate to rule on the matter.
The ruling party rejected the motion
As expected after the public support issued, the pro-government senators rejected the political matter motion raised by the Wide Front under the argument that “the president’s decisions are sufficient to turn the page“.
“Faced with the motion to treat an issue as a political matter presented by the bench of the Broad Front, “The Republican coalition bench, having taken into consideration the political decisions adopted and that the facts that are proposed as the object of the political matter motion are within the orbit of Justice, it is resolved not to accompany the motion with the following reasons,” says the statement of the senators of the ruling party that was read by the senator Carmen Asiaín in the basis of the negative vote.
Among the points explained to reject the debate on the Marset scandal in the parliamentary session, the ruling party listed that “the political crisis was duly resolved with the intervention and decisions of the Republic President, communicated in a timely manner at a press conference; and are enough to turn the page and move on”; that “the questions that remain to be elucidated are all in the scope of Justice and it is there where the value of the testimonies that have been given will be known”; and, finally, that “making room for this proposal of Political Matter, which seeks to replace an interpellation of the already resigned hierarchs, would only generate erosion of political relations in this Body and would put the institutional bases into unnecessary and inappropriate questioning.”
Source: Ambito
