The candidate for the Frente Amplio questioned the interference of the political system over the judicial system and asked that the case be investigated.
The candidate for Broad Front, Yamandú Orsiwas the first to react to the resignation of Pablo Iturralde and he assured that it seemed like the best decision. On the other hand, he asked that the case be investigated, in addition to questioning whether the political system has any influence on the judicial system.
Pablo Iturralde He resigned this morning from the presidency of the National Party (PN)after private chats with the then senator became known Gustavo Penadés – accused of crimes of abuse and exploitation of minors – in which he points out the prosecutor Alicia Ghione as a “friend” and spoke of the possibility of putting pressure on the Attorney General Juan Gomez.
“It is the least that could be expected from the disclosure of a conversation that compromises a party and an entire government effort,” Orsi said at a press conference in Cologne. Regarding the fact that they referred to the prosecutor Alicia Ghione as a “friend,” Orsi said she found it “out of character.” “It does not apply, but the worst of all is that there remains the suspicion that someone could have been an operator,” she stressed.
In that sense, he insisted on the need for further investigation. “There have to be explanations from other institutions regarding the scope of political actions on judicial institutions,” he claimed. The pre-candidate admitted that all prosecutors have their political preferences and “more on Uruguay where everyone knows each other”, but he insisted on the fact that politics cannot try to operate to distort a decision.
Iturralde’s resignation
This Thursday, messages between Iturralde and Penadés were known about the possible benefit that prosecutor Ghione could have had in the case at the end of March of last year. The context of that moment contained the recent complaint of the militant Romina Celeste Papasso against Penades; and the content of the messages, as reported by the weekly Busqueda, referred to the prosecutors who went through the investigation.
Faced with the repercussion of the events, the now former president of the National Party decided to communicate his resignation through his social networks. “By virtue of the disclosure of a private and personal conversation and in order not to compromise my colleagues, nor the institutional functioning of my party, I have made the decision to resign from my position as President of the Board of Directors of the National Partyl”, published in X.
Source: Ambito
