The President of the Republic in office, Beatriz Argimónassured that the recent leaks of chats between political actors are part of “the new times” and regretted the public appearance of private conversations after the scandal over the messages between the former senator Gustavo Penadés and the former president of the Board of Directors of the National Party (PN), Pablo Iturralde.
This Thursday, after leading a forum dedicated to sustainability, the leader referred at a press conference to the scandal surrounding Iturralde and the controversial conversations between WhatsApp among the nationalist senators who came to light.
Asked about Iturralde’s resignation, Argimon He said that he “made the decision that I would have made too, I talked to him about it and I think it was very good.”
Regarding the leak of the chats of the group of the senators’ bench, he noted: “These are new times, I recognize that sometimes it is difficult for us to adapt to those times.”
“I belong to the times where what was reserved, was reserved. Negotiation meetings were spoken in private areas and then they maintained the codes of those times,” said the president.
“Today times change, technology offers these instances and the evaluations can be diverse, there are those who say that it is better for everything to be known and everything to be on public display, and there are those of us who still prefer to preserve some spaces of trust, intimacy and privacy,” he said.
However, Argimón acknowledged that it is also true that “times sometimes dictate other things that we have to get used to.”
What do the controversial WhatsApp chats between white senators say?
This Thursday, Search published conversations from the WhatsApp group of white senators, which were extracted from the cell phone seized from former senator Penadés, while his case was being investigated, for which he remains in preventive detention after being charged with 22 crimes of sexual abuse against minors. .
The chats belong to April 2023, within the framework of the political trial which was initiated by the Constitution and Legislation Commission of the Senate against the mayor of Montevideo in use of license and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cossean initiative that was promoted by a group of nationalist Montevideo councilors.
“This issue should be postponed until someone demands its treatment. That is, forever,” said the former mayor of Cerro Largo and current mayor on April 20. Senator Sergio Botanawho added that doing so would be a “sad spectacle” that would be rejected by the white mayors.
In that sense, the then incumbent senator Sebastian Da Silva He explained: “It must be prosecuted for the Antel Arena“The only thing this does is victimize her,” he added.
“Look for the way out you want, but I don’t want to discredit the councilors of Montevideo who apply the rule. We tend to leave them quite alone in this fight, I think that now we can’t snub them,” replied the legislator and presidential candidate Jorge GandinYo. “You have to deal with it now or later, and find a decent way out,” she continued.
The Senator Carmen Asiaín said that Cosse “did violate the Constitution“, but that it was not something of such seriousness “as to dictate a sentence separating her from the charge.”
For its part, the Senator Graciela Bianchi He added: “And the white mayors have some things to cover up. Do they want them to start with political trials? Don’t forget that only a third of the votes of the Board are needed.”
Source: Ambito
