The former president of the Republic, Julio María Sanguinetti assured that the resignations of the government leaders after the derivations of the Marset case were “self-inflicted harm” on the part of the Multicolor Coalition.
The secretary general of Colorado Party (PC) He once again criticized the behavior of the government leaders once the passport was given to the drug trafficker. Sebastian Marset when he was imprisoned in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) in 2021.
According to Sanguinettithe government’s response by accepting the resignation of the officials in the face of the controversy created in opinion by the issuance of the document, was “an unforced error” and “an unavoidable” and “serious” error in terms of the consequences, since, In his opinion, the delivery of the document was done lawfully.
“It is very rare that a legal event, indisputably regular, can generate a crisis that takes out five front-line leaders,” said the former head of state in his weekly column in Correo de los Viernes, a partisan publication of the Batllista Forum.
In turn, he commented that “if that administratively correct fact” is “the simple granting of a passport, it is even more paradoxical,” in reference to the resignations of the Former Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo and of former Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heberamong the other officials.
“There was no Uruguayan or Interpol requirement. By the current decree, the Foreign Ministry was obliged to grant the document, simply because that Uruguayan citizen had the right to receive it,” remarked the Colorado leader.
Likewise, he pointed out against the actions of the hierarchs “it is clear that the public information was confusing and that there were contradictions between the actors and this meant their political responsibility.”
The Marset case is “magnified to the point of delirium” by the Frente Amplio, according to Sanguinetti
On the other hand, he criticized the attitude of Broad Front (FA)which expressed its disagreement with the decisions of the Executive Branch despite the resignations of Bustillo and Heber.
“It was what an opposition was demanding, which is now not satisfied either and is trying to viciously exploit the episode,” which is “magnified to the point of delirium by those who insinuated, and continue to insinuate, institutional effects,” he pointed out in this regard.
Source: Ambito
