The sector led by Guido Manini Ríos will wait for the judicial determination on whether there were crimes or not, but for the moment it does not add chaos to the political crisis.
Town meeting still maintains his critical vision on the responsibility of the government of Uruguay in the Marset scandal, and point out that the former ministers Luis Alberto Heber and Francisco Bustillo They hid information from political power. However, they will wait for the court’s resolutions on the matter.
With a less belligerent tone than might have been expected from the coalition’s “rebellious partner,” Town meeting He gave a press conference yesterday in which he explained his position regarding the political crisis that the government is going through after the controversy unleashed around the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker. Sebastian Marset.
Led by senator and party leader Guido Manini Ríosand with the presence of legislators and ministers, at the conference – which took place after the meeting of the National Political Table— Special emphasis was placed on the amount of information that was known about the case in the time that had passed since Heber and Bustillo gave explanations in the Senate about the delivery of the passport, in August of last year. “Information that was not provided completely by said leaders, in an instance in which our party gave them a vote of confidence,” was highlighted.
In that sense, Manini Ríos assessed the resignations of the ministers as positive, as well as that of the undersecretary of the Interior. Guillermo Maciel and that of the presidential advisor Roberto Lafluf. However, lobbyists’ doubts about the process—including the president’s possible conscientious participation Luis Lacalle Pou in the facts of the scandal—are maintained, and they made it clear.
For this reason, they will wait with expectation judicial resolutions that allow determining whether there were crimes or not, as well as verifying the “legality and relevance” of having granted Marset the passport in 2021.
Messages for the new ministers
Meanwhile, Manini Ríos also took advantage of the conference to transmit messages to the new ministers who occupy the positions of Heber and Bustillo. In that sense, the lobby leader indicated that his party hopes that the new Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Martinelli, During his administration he faced changes in the policies of public security and in the fight against drug trafficking. “It is necessary to reverse the reality that has been going on for more than a decade,” he warned.
Likewise, he recalled that in all this time “there have been leaks of mafia bosses, alternative measures to dangerous criminals”, which has made it clear that the actions to stop drug trafficking activities in Uruguay They are insufficient.
Regarding the new chancellor Omar Paganini, Open Town Hall hopes that it will comply with the recent resolution of the House of Representatives and provide for the cessation of the appointments made in a discretionary and direct manner in the Uruguayan delegation to the Mixed Technical Commission (CTM) of Salto Grande. The lobbyists there demanded the departure of the councilors appointed to that body and the removal of the three directors of the national delegation in that binational body.
Source: Ambito
