After the leak of chats, the president argued that the prosecutor ruled against the former senator and disassociated the National Party from what happened with Pablo Iturralde.
President Luis Lacalle Pou broke the silence about the scandal after the leak of chats between the former senator Gustavo Penadés and the president of National Party, Pablo Iturralde, warning that “if there is something that there was not, it is pressure on prosecutors.”
Lacalle Pou considered that the prosecutor Alicia Ghione “failed contrary to what they were supposedly pressuring,” by arguing that the dialogue between the leaders did not affect the conviction for sexual abuse against the former legislator.
After toning down the scandal, the president was complimentary of Iturralde pointing out that he is “a great person, a great militant” and, in what has to do with the scandal that the now former president of the PN unleashed, he detailed: “That he made a mistake in a private conversation is something else.” Meanwhile, he supported the resignation, considering that he “delimits the party” from the chats.
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Lacalle Pou questioned the “differential treatment” of the Prosecutor’s Office
During a press conference after an event in Rocha after the inauguration of the housing plan Mevir, Lacalle Pou expressed “concern” because he considered that there is “differential treatment” in Prosecutor’s Office, in line with what was stated by other leaders of the National Party.
“There are causes that go at 180 kilometers per hour and others either do not go or are still,” said the head of state and focused on the Morabito case: “It’s been a long time since he escaped through the prison door and we still don’t know anything. I don’t want them all to go slowly, the best thing for these people to have justice is for them to go as fast as possible.”
At the same time, he was critical of the Broad Front. “Some opposition political leader, logically, throws some punch at the government,” he began, but then stopped due to the election campaign: “If I answer him, I have to start talking about politics.”
“This entire government has passed and I have not gone to a committee, as others could do. I have not gone to any demonstration of the political parties, neither the PN nor the Coalition. “I’m going to end it like this,” the president boasted.
Source: Ambito
