This Saturday the opposition Political Table met to determine possible parliamentary actions.
The president of Frente Amplio, Fernando Pereira, announced that this Monday they will meet at the Parliament to determine the actions to be carried out in the face of the scandal within the National Party in relation to the Penadés case, which caused the resignation of the president of that party, Pablo Iturralde.
As a first instance, the opposition met yesterday at the Political Table to analyze the next steps in relation to the Iturralde case. From there, on Monday at Parliament will determine the possible actions to confront the political scandal that overwhelmed the National Party last week. “We are going to analyze it calmly,” said Pereira.
Regarding the case, the president of the Wide Front He called for it to be treated with the respect it deserves. “We must not make a fuss of these things, we must act soberly because the Wide Front wants to take care of everyone’s home,” he remarked and added: “I believe that the National Party should apologize to the Uruguay “For this event, one more pearl of many that have occurred in this time.”
Iturralde’s chats
In relation to the leaked chats of the former president of the National Party in relation to the closeness they had with the prosecutor Alicia Ghione, regarding the case she was leading of the former senator Gustavo Penadés and the complaints against her for sexual abuse and exploitation of minors, Pereira said that they gave the lawyer a year. “I believe that they did enormous damage (to Ghione) because she had been following the cause correctly, she gave enormous guarantees to the entire society,” she said.
“On the other hand, when the president says that some cases are going at 180 per hour and others very slowly, he clearly puts pressure on Justice. He names a particular cause and, therefore, a particular prosecutor. They have done this throughout the entire period of Government”, remarked the president of the FA.
On the other hand, he gave his opinion on Iturralde’s resignation as soon as the chats were known. “Some respond that Iturralde’s attitude was ‘bold’ and ‘brave’. Another responds that he is presenting a reform to a law on an issue as delicate as gender violence. And it refers to the speed of the cases when in reality what they would have to do is explain why in so long they have had so many scandalous causes,” he said and added: “When you make mistakes of this volume, you not only have to leave, you have to explain why we reached this extreme.”
Source: Ambito
