The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Wide Front (FA), Carolina Cossepointed out against the ruling party after the scandal over the chats between the now former president of National Party (PN), Pablo Iturraldeand the former senator Gustavo Penadésin preventive detention after being charged with multiple crimes of sexual abuse of minors.
Iturralde resigned as president of the PN Board of Directors after chats with Penadés emerged in March 2023, where he assured that the sex crimes prosecutor, Alicia Ghionewas “a friend”, something that could benefit the cause.
After these events, the capital’s leader assured this Wednesday at a press conference that the PN intends to close all the scandals “with resignations”, including this one, which she described as “a very serious event.”
“That the president of a political party tries to pressure Justice is a serious fact,” he said. cosse and added: “I think it can be configured into a political crisis that affects the institutions.” “It is not what citizens expect or deserve from politics or politicians,” she continued.
In the past, cosse He repeatedly criticized the actions of the ruling party, and in particular the PN, around the Astesiano case, the Marset case, the controversy over political clientelism in the Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande, among others, including these new derivations of the Penadés case.
What did the chats between Iturralde and Penadés say?
The first controversial exchange between Iturralde and Penadés was on March 30, 2023, and featured the prosecutor Mariana Alfarothe first assigned in charge of the case by the Department of Purification, Prioritization and Assignment of the Attorney General’s Office. “This is a great HDP. It was the one that requested the raid on Blue for rape issue and it is with issue Ocean. I shot him to death today and he shit. He understood the message,” Iturralde wrote to whom he was then one of the nationalist leaders.
“The next one is Ghione. If there is a logic they would have to give it to her. Ghione is my friend,” he said next, to which Penadés responded: “I wish.”
What the president of the nationalist Board of Directors predicted actually happened, and the next day, Alfaro appealed the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office. “They gave it to Alicia Ghione. She just called me. She asked me for your number,” Iturralde wrote to Penadés on March 31. “She is totally trustworthy. Great guy,” he added.
Source: Ambito
