The president was with his children and the Minister of Defense responded to a request for information from the Frente Amplio with the list of visitors since 2005.
Lacalle Pou traveled to Antarctica with his children and the episode generated a stir on the local scene.
The trip to the Antarcticaof the president Luis Lacalle Pou, held in mid-December, once again generated a clash between the government and the Wide Front about the official delegation and expenses.
The fact is that the president was with his children on the white continent and that motivated a request for reports from the opposition, to which the ruling party recently responded with a list of the trips made to the Antarctica since 2005.
This was made known at a press conference by Minister of National Defense, Javier García, who assured that he provided “all the information available from 2005 to date with all the delegations”, a text with almost 2,000 names.
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A list with former leaders and relatives
García defended Lacalle Pou noting that the survey shows that “other presidents had the initiative to invite relatives and a chancellor, family, wife and other invitations”, as happened with former president Tabaré Vázquez, according to the document.
In the document sent by the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute Numerous former leaders and legislators also appear, among which stand out Mario Bergara, Rodolfo Nin Novoa and Raúl Sendic. Two survivors of the Tragedy of the Andes also traveled, such as Gustavo Zerbino and José Luis “Coche” Inciarte.
When echoing the list, the Minister of Defense called out the deputy Sebastian Valdomir (FA), author of the request. “The request was made to me on Twitter, but the legislator did not make the response known on Twitter. You would have your reasons…”, he ironized.
The Frente Amplio questioned the lack of concrete responses
The response quickly came from X (exTwitter), where Valdomir He echoed the reception of the text and, regarding his concern about the names of the civilians and their assigned tasks, fired: “It doesn’t answer what I asked and it answers what I didn’t ask.”
“We are left without knowing what the president’s son-in-law was going to do,” Valdomir questioned the presence of the president’s daughter’s boyfriend and concluded: “The government that came to take charge, always talking about Broad Front”.
Source: Ambito
