The mayor of Montevideo was supported by Yamandú Orsi and the FA, while criticism rained down from the ruling party.
The Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, highlighted the case file for the Antel Arena and assured that it was “a political operation” against him, after the decision of the Prosecutor for Economic Crimes, Alejandro Machado, who considered that there were no crimes.
The pre-candidate of Wide Front He stressed that in the initial report, which appears in the file, “the expected cost of the entire project is explained in detail” and warned that the case was part of “systematic attacks” against her, recalling the attempted impeachment since the Departmental Board of Montevideo.
cosse He recalled that “from a part of the Antel board of directors a pseudo audit was generated that was presented in court to generate an entire criminal case against me,” he noted without naming the then head of the state company, Gabriel Gurmendez.
Finally, echoing the court ruling, he expressed: “What I want here is to always reaffirm my perseverance in the republican institutions. No one can deny that Justice took its time and finally filed the case today.”
The memory of Tabaré Vázquez and the mention of his mother
On the other hand, Cosse, who will launch his pre-candidacy on March 2, coinciding with the speech before the Legislative General Assembly of Luis Lacalle Pou, remembered the former president Tabaré Vázquez. “A few days before the public launch of the Antel Arena, “He told me ‘they are going to attack you, I advise you to think that this is for the human rights of the citizens,'” he said and reviewed that the former president highlighted “what it was going to mean for Montevideo and to Uruguay”.
In addition, the mayor regretted a personal situation that she had to experience with her deceased mother. “My mother, who I no longer have, had to experience the news of this criminal case at a very advanced age,” she recalled and, visibly moved, added: “Monday would be her birthday and as is customary in my family we got together for lunch.” or dinner.”
Source: Ambito
