“If he has a defect, it is that he is too good,” said the former president, who said that the accusation has links to drug trafficking and political leaders.
Former president José Mujica defended Yamandú Orsi after the complaint against him and admitted the “impact” at the electoral level.
Photo: Courtesy MPP
The ex-president Jose Mujica defended Yamandu Orsi, presidential candidate of the Broad Front, of the complaint for alleged sexual assault of a trans woman, while admitting that it “surely impacts” her image in the eyes of the elections 2024.
Without giving names, Mujica assured that “while investigating, interesting things appear,” slipping that the accusation has links to the drug trafficking and with political leaders of the Uruguay. “There are things here and it worries me because it is getting dirty,” he said in dialogue with Radio Sarandí.
The former president admitted that “we always go overboard in the electoral campaign because our temper gets hot and it is inevitable,” after which he considered that “this speaks to the tone of the society in which we live.”
Mujica acknowledged that the complaint against former mayor of Canelones “It is a brave blow” within the framework of the internal FA, where he competes directly against the mayor of Montevideo in use of license, Carolina Cosse.
In this framework, he tried a strong defense of the MPP leader. “I thought it was a joke, a campaign against him. I’ve known him for a thousand years. If Orsi has a flaw, it’s that he’s too good,” she said.
Orsi’s team targets a troll campaign
Orsi’s campaign team assured weeks ago that there is “an orchestrated campaign” around the complaint, pointing out that “1,000 foreign accounts” created to interact with the issue on social networks were detected. Some leaders even linked the National Party, who threatened to file a complaint for “defamation and insults.”
The hypothesis was launched by Francisco Legnani, campaign manager of the pre-candidate, who pointed out that “there are a series of indications and components that suggest that this is not an isolated event,” considering that it is “a dirty campaign” similar to what occurred in other countries “with the intention of ban candidates.”
Source: Ambito
