The presidential candidate for the National Party assured that “Justice spoke”, but that he also did not deny the occurrence of “impropriety” or “expenses that perhaps were not appropriate.”
The pre-candidate of National Party for the presidency of Uruguay, Álvaro Delgado, referred to the decision of the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office to file the case Antel Arena and maintained that judicial rulings “can be applauded or criticized,” but that “they have to be followed.” Furthermore, he pointed out that “the Justice did not say that there were no sloppiness.”
As the days go by since it became known that the Economic Crimes prosecutor, Alejandro Machado, filed the complaint against the Municipality of Montevideo and the community leader Carolina Cosse for alleged irregularities in the construction of the Antel Arena, Comments on this matter have not stopped arising. From the side of Broad Front, They were positive, signaling the end of a “political operation”; while from the government coalition criticism took precedence and, even, from Presidency The possibility of appealing to the ruling is analyzed.
One of the voices that had not expressed itself on the matter was Alvaro Delgado, who comfortably leads the nationalist internal ranks according to the latest polls. Asked about it by Telemundo within the framework of the inauguration of the new Salto International Airport, the former Secretary of the Presidency pointed out that “Justice spoke” and that, therefore, the ruling had to be followed regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with it. “If I do it for one side, I do it for the other,” he said.
In any case, he emphasized that prosecutor Machado’s opinion maintained that no crimes had been found regarding the construction of the Antel Arena, but that “the Justice did not say that there were no sloppiness nor that the information that could not be given was not kept confidential for eight years, that there were no expenses that perhaps were not appropriate.” “Opportunity and merit are one thing, and crime is another,” she said.
The government is seeking legal mechanisms to appeal against the filing of the complaint for the construction of the Antel Arena, the project led by Carolina Cosse at that time. After this Thursday the president of Antel, Annabela Suburú, I will call the president Luis Lacalle Pou it was decided that Legal of the state company to study the issue.
For Gurméndez, the ruling can allow “anything”
The former president of Antel and current candidate for Colorado Party, Gabriel Gurméndezquestioned the ruling of the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and considered that the evidence was weighted “unidirectionally.”
For Gurméndez, who was in charge of the public company at the time of making the complaint, and beyond the opinion of the prosecutor, there was “use and abuse” of public money in a work that, he considered, “was not necessary” to Antel. “It is about the irresponsible management of people’s money, of people’s pockets,” he said during a visit to the department of Leap, within the framework of the electoral campaign, and added: “We value that the facts and evidence have been weighed in a way that goes unidirectionally to the file of the case.”
Likewise, the Colorado pre-candidate expressed concern about Machado’s ruling since, according to him, it could “open the way” so that in the future “anything can be done” with the public money.
“We are going to work seriously and politically so that people’s money is respected, so that people’s money is handled with transparency, that there is no setback, that we do not relive these issues of Antel Arena, The problems of Ancap with its 800 million dollars, the 80 million dollars of Pluna that now, slowly, they hit us again,” he said.
Source: Ambito
