The Frente Amplista candidate referred to the president’s defense regarding the possible political impact and pointed out that “if he considers that there was not, now there is.”
The presidential candidate Uruguay for him Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, He questioned the president’s words Luis Lacalle Pou about the scandal that shakes the National Party after the leak of the chats between the now former head of the white Board of Directors Pablo Iturralde and Gustavo Penadés; and maintained that “a wonderful opportunity” to “strengthen institutions” was lost.
Since Thursday, the National Party has been reeling from different attacks from other political parties and attempts to detach the party structure from what, they insist, was nothing more than “something personal.” The thing is that the messages that Iturralde exchanged with Penadés, in which he mentions the convenience of the prosecutor Alicia Ghione will take the case against the former senator for sexual crimes against minors and the possibility of putting pressure on the attorney general of the Court Juan Gomezthey once again focused not only on the scandals within the nationalist sphere, but also on the political impact on Justice.
However, the president Lacalle Pou He pointed out on Friday that “if there is something that there was not, it is pressure on the prosecutors” in the Penadés case, referring to the fact that “the prosecutor ruled contrary to what was supposedly being pressured.”
Anyway, he took the opportunity to launch a criticism of the Prosecutor’s Office: “There are causes that go at 180 kilometers per hour and others either don’t go or are still. And I’m going to say one that is not fast. (Rocco) Morabito. How long ago did he escape through the prison door? And we still don’t know anything. There are others that go fast,” she said.
A new pressure on Justice
Regarding this statement of the president it was that Orsi He put the focus and pointed out that if there was no pressure on the Prosecutor’s Office before – in the words of Lacalle Pou—, “Now there is.” “Nothing less than from him. How are you going to say that the Prosecutor’s Office acts quickly in some cases and slowly in others?” questioned the Frente Amplista candidate.
“I never thought that a president could say that. I never expected it. All doubts are cleared,” he added.
Orsi He also wondered why Iturralde presented his resignation if he had not done anything of which he was accused: “The attitude does not match what the president is saying today.” In any case, and unlike what his competitor said inside the Frente Amplio, Carolina Cosse, He denied that there is an institutional crisis—at least, for the moment—but he did say that “the president is crossing a line that I think does not correspond.”
Source: Ambito
