He National Party The election year began with an internal one, after the senator and presidential candidate Jorge Gandini would propose that the Armed forces help the Police in the fight against drug trafficking, which earned him the rejection of his peer, Sergio Botana, who asked “not to ignore” the security force that depends on the Ministry of Interior.
The idea of Gandini is for the military to carry out patrol and surveillance tasks “in some complicated areas”, mainly in Montevideo and Canelones, with the aim of confronting the drug phenomenon.
Quickly, the possibility of an initiative in that sense generated the repudiation of Snack, who through his X account (exTwitter) expressed: “With all due respect, I do not share the proposal that the Army participate in internal security.”
The legislator asked “not to ignore the Police” and considered that, in the event that more troops are needed, “We must put the Army in Embassies, perimeters of prisons and discourage Medical licenses and commissions.
“I do not believe that the country is in a situation of institutional breakdown or extreme internal insecurity to authorize the Army to take to the streets,” he warned. snack and he concluded: “Or are we just going to take the Army out for a walk? “They paint them with spray if they can’t do anything… And poor soldiers if they manage to shoot.”
The Minister of Defense also spoke out against the project.
For his part, the Minister of National Defense, Javier García, He maintained at a press conference that “the Police are neither overwhelmed nor overwhelmed in any way” and stressed that “they are carrying out a very good job and with very positive results to combat crime.”
Regarding the role of the Army, he recalled that the Investigation Division already carries out security tasks with the National Naval Prefecture, the National Army and the other forces on the border. “The fact that forces participate in public security tasks with a very precise regulatory framework is not new, because any action carried out by a soldier outside the legal framework exposes him to committing a crime,” he said.
Regarding the latter, Garcia graphed: “If a soldier is the object of aggression and repels it, that ends with the soldier imprisoned because he does not have a legal framework.”
What is Gandini’s proposal?
The senator Gandini He admitted that his proposal “is controversial,” but he considered in dialogue with Channel 10 that he seeks to act “in the face of new situations generated by drug trafficking,” noting that “in the region we are seeing it and in Uruguay also”.
The presidential candidate asked to “start thinking about how we make better use of the Armed forces “in a task that helps us maintain the presence of the State in some complicated areas.”
Gandini recalled that the Armed Forces “cannot have repressive tasks in matters of internal security”, but he stressed that they can fulfill other roles, such as “perimeter custody of prisons or border control, “They are not external security tasks and they do them very well.”
Finally, when arguing in favor of his proposal, the legislator noted: “It cannot be that there are people who cannot sleep because of the shootings every night. The neighbors want the State to be more present. The mere presence of the Armed Forces walking around and informing the Police of the things they see outside their place, I believe, restores a lot of confidence to the neighbors.”
Source: Ambito
