The former leader went through several storms during his administration that ended in his resignation last year.
The increase in insecurity and homicides and the drug trafficking scandal Sebastian Marset were two of the biggest problems that the current senator for the National Party (PN), Luis Alberto Heber, as Minister of the Interior; However, he assured that he would return to take a ministerial position in the event that the Multicolor Coalition govern again.
The former minister of Inside and of Transportation and Public Works He assured that he would undoubtedly return to be a government minister. “In political activity one has the objective of transforming, and the executive position is very attractive, because one has the ability to change, to build. The discussion is in Parliament, and I like to confront ideas, but I like doing more. Thats why he Ministry of Transportation and Public Works Maybe I felt more fulfilled,” Heber said in conversation with Desayunos Informales.
However, he did not rule out that he would also serve as minister of the Inside. “In the end I came to have a connection with the police institution, with the police officers, which really gave me a lot of satisfaction, creating a team for the challenges that lay ahead of us,” he explained.
“I to a next coalition government and eventually the National Party “I do not deny my name to anyone who requires it to fulfill whatever mission,” he added and commented that he does not regret having been Minister of the Interior, but rather he assures that it was a source of pride. However, he admitted that he “undoubtedly had political wear and tear at the head of the Ministry of the Interior.”
The pressure of insecurity
During his tenure as Minister of the Interior, Heber was heavily criticized for his performance in the fight against insecurity. Even the president of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, He admitted during his speech at the general Assembly on Saturday that there is much to do in relation to that issue.
In the middle of last year, the former leader was questioned in Parliament after the call of the main opposition force of the government, the Broad Front (FA) where he had to give explanations regarding security. For his part, at that same time of the year the former minister had received pressure from the Executive Branch that demanded better results in relation to the number of homicides that had been increasing.
The straw that broke the camel
Beyond the pressure from the opposition and the Executive power in relation to insecurity and the increase in homicides, which caused the resignation of Heber was his relationship with the scandal of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker Sebastian Marset while he was imprisoned in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for trying to enter the territory with false documentation.
In that sense, the figure of Luis Alberto Heber received a final blow with the leak of the statement of Carolina Ache before the prosecutor’s office for the Marset case, which showed a series of measures articulated in different instances of the government to hide the knowledge they had about the danger of the Uruguayan drug trafficker.
Source: Ambito
