Today there were very difficult crosses in the Parliament among the senators Luis Alberto Heber of the National Party (PN) and his pair of Broad Front (FA), Charles Carreraafter Justice filed the file for the second time for the contract signed between the government and the Belgian multinational Katoen Natie for the concession of the container terminal of Port of Montevideo until the year 2081.
Heberwho served as minister of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) When the concession was signed, he took the floor to refer to the ruling and defend his innocence before the Senate. In his speech, the nationalist stated that the complaining senators, Career and Mario Bergara“they have to swallow each of the letters of that short word called fraud.”
“Each letter has to be chewed and swallowed” and “digested,” he insisted. Heber emphatically. “Is this (the ruling of Justice) vindictive? Of course it is vindictive for us,” said the white legislator, who added that the prosecutor established that the officials “did not commit any crime.”
Careerfor his part, said that he did not like mud, and that “the pig likes mud”, in reference to Heber. “Some are not judges when they are the accused,” shot the Frente Amplista.
Despite the failure, Career He again attacked the former minister and the rest of the accused leaders with his criticism: “It is easier to act offended than to give an explanation of why this agreement was made, which is infamous,” he expressed.
The senator indicated that although they accepted the ruling, that “does not mean” that they did not act with “ineptitude, ignorance or fraud,” and that “explanations were never given.”
Da Silva described Carrera as “ruin” and “miserable”
The nationalist senator Sebastian Da Silva he replied to the words of Career and called him “ruin” and “miserable.” “This session could be summarized as follows, from loose mouth to babbling,” the legislator began by saying.
Da Silva He went further and pointed out that the Broad Front senators spent “two years dirtying families and rulers” and that when it came to recognizing their mistakes they showed “their true nature,” since “not once, but twice, Justice said that they were wrong.” “.
“The Lord Careerwho is one of the architects of this hoax, fled (from the session)”, he shot Da Silvawho added: “Did anyone think that that mean man was going to ask for forgiveness? He’s a wretch!” he repeated.
“The Broad Front does not have to swallow any words”
Later, at a press conference, the senator Bergara He maintained that “the FA does not have to swallow any words, much less because they demand it in the aggressive and out of place manner as happened today.”
“What the FA reaffirms is that every time as an opposition it sees a performance with irregularities, with reprehensible actions and actions, it will act as it has to act,” he insisted.
Source: Ambito
