In recent days, the problems that the Attorney General’s Office due to the already prolonged lack of appointment of a Court prosecutor, added to the health breakdown that the surrogate court prosecutor, Juan Gómezthey divided the waters again in the Parliament between the ruling party and the opposition.
After the news became known that the health of Gomezwho is admitted to the American Sanatorium, will require care for “several months”, voices have once again appeared from the ruling party calling for his resignation.
The Multicolor Coalition removed support from Gomez at the beginning of last year, after he decided to transfer prosecutor Gabriela Fossati and relegate her from the investigation into the case of Alejandro Astesianoformer presidential custodian of Luis Lacalle Pou. The government had perceived the decision as a way of giving in to the pressures of the opposition regarding the Astesiano case.
Gomez acts as interim court prosecutor since the resignation of Jorge Diaz in October 2021, now being subrogated by the prosecutor Monica Ferrerowho does have the support of the government alliance.
The nationalist senator Luis Alberto Heber publicly declared through his X account (formerly Twitter) his favoritism for Ferrero to be appointed court prosecutor, since she is an “enemy of drug trafficking.” About this, she also a member of the National Party (PN), Senator Graciela Bianchicelebrated that the issue of the Prosecutor’s Office is once again in the debate, but asserted that social networks “were not the place” for it.
In another message, Bianchi He indicated that “someday it will be understood that we do not have the necessary majorities, neither the ruling party, nor the opposition” to resolve the issue unilaterally, and that “governing with republican sensibility is not as easy as it seems from a social network.”
“It is not appropriate, due to sensitivity issues”
For his part, in dialogue with Telemundo, the Broad Front senator José Carlos Mahíaexpressed that raising the issue of the new designation “is not appropriate, especially due to a matter of sensitivity,” in reference to the health of Gomez.
“Starting to speculate today about a succession is not a good thing and is not a good sign as a political system as a whole,” said the Canary Islands legislator.
“(Gomez) has been criticized and has been pressured, I know of no precedent that an entire bench, or the representation of the bench of a government, is going to meet with the attorney general asking for this or that case,” he noted, adding that “the Prosecutor’s Office is very important and it has to have the guarantee of all the parties.
Source: Ambito
