He National Party (PN) went on the attack in the midst of the scandal unleashed by its now former president, Pablo Iturralde, for the leak of his chats with the former senator Gustavo Penadés about the judicial case that investigated him for sexual abuse.
The presidential candidate Alvaro Delgado questioned the Wide Front remembering that when he was in government, his leaders “screwed to their positions” in the face of this type of episode and considered that they see “the speck in another’s eye and not the beam in their own.”
The senator went further Javier García, who pointed out that Prosecutor’s Office became “a center of political operations with also partisan connotations”, even comparing the situation with what happened with Justice in Argentina and talk about “folders.”
Fernando Pereira is “an opinionologist of the National Party
Within the framework of the election campaign, Despite criticism from within the Coalition, Delgado set his sights on the opposition and expressed an “important difference” with his president, Fernando Pereira. “He has become an opinionologist of the National Party, Delgado chicaned at a press conference.
The former Secretary of the Presidency considered that “some try to see the speck in another’s eye and not the beam in one’s own”, while adding: “No one is exempt from errors: neither people, nor parties nor governments. It would be very arrogant if we said anything else.”
Returning to the criticism, he stated: “The issue is not the things that are generated, but how they are resolved. In 15 years of government, with its own majority, in the FA there was a decision of buckling in the face of complaints, errors, horrors and eventually irregularities and crimes.”
“They only resigned when Justice asked them to,” Delgado questioned and assured that those suspected of the previous government “they screwed themselves to the charges.”
Javier García said that there are “political interests” in the Prosecutor’s Office
For Javier García, The Attorney General’s Office “has been transformed for years into a center of political operations, with partisan connotations”, and then ruled on the leak of chats: “I have no doubt that there are political interests.”
In that sense, the white legislator compared the scandal with what happened in the neighboring country. “They call it folders, when private life circumstances are used to affect a person’s personal or political life. It’s a sad fashion Argentina It seems that he was infected in some places in Uruguay”, he pointed out.
Regarding Iturralde’s conversation with Penadés, he described it as “a mistake “that did not generate consequences” and assured that “an attempt is being made to construct a story”, while he concluded: “If they were pressures, the truth is that they were totally to the point and ineffective, because Penadés is being prosecuted and has been re-imprisoned.”
Finally, the former defense minister He concluded: “We must put an end to the hypocrisies and it is a good time to analyze that the Prosecutor’s Office cannot be a place where there are people who operate politically, who take away guarantees from citizens and who remove trust in the judicial process.”
Source: Ambito
