The Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning, Raúl Lozano, admitted the “shortcomings” in the delivery of houses. The former leader apologized.
He Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (MVOT) presented a report where it admitted that there were “errors” and irregularities in the delivery of households by the former head of the area, Irene Moreira, although he clarified that an “illegitimate act” was not found.
By echoing the results of the research, Moreira, who resigned talking about the existence of a political operation against him, pointed out that “the cases in question are only two” and asserted: “If I was wrong in the procedures, it is appropriate that I apologize to all the Uruguayans.”
The actual Minister of Housing, Raúl Lozano, held a press conference today where he gave details of the administrative investigation initiated by the MVOT for the alleged discretionary delivery of homes.
The leader specified that there were “12 cases with two awards with a purchase option, one of which was void due to the resignation of the person with the option” and added: “Later there were five cases of temporary award for 12 months, extendable, of which three were void.”
Lush He assured that “there was no illegitimate act, because the administrator somehow has the tool to allocate up to 10% of the quotas,” but admitted that “there were flaws, errors, or some type of irregularity in the allocation of these quotas.” ”.
Moreira apologized
Once the results of the investigation are known, Moreira released a message in which he noted that “the cases in question are only two, in which access to lease of housing with an option to purchase and there were not dozens as was initially suggested.
“Nor was a living place without further ado, but that it is a lease with an option to purchase”, he defended himself and said that he did it “from the conviction that he was doing the right thing”, considering that “this is the only way to explain why my request for that each case be treated.”
“If I was wrong in the procedures, it is appropriate that I apologize to everyone, but especially to the lobbying public, since our party, based on these events, had to face a campaign of high hostility,” concluded the former minister.
Source: Ambito
