The vice presidential candidate of Uruguay Valeria Ripoll He referred to the new scandal that hits the National Party, This time in the Artigas Municipalityand maintained that “what is wrong, is wrong,” so he will not back down from what he denounced at the time.
He National Party is once again faced with the discomfort of being the center of the news for an event of political corruption, this time in the plenary session of the departmental management in Artigas, after the conviction of the now former mayor Pablo Caram, his cousin and general secretary Rodolfo Caram, and the former deputy Valentina Dos Santos.
About, Valeria Ripoll referred to the complaint made by the Association of Municipal Employees and Workers (ADEOM) when she led the subsidiary of Montevideo. “What is wrong is wrong and I am not going to back down from what I denounced at the time. The court ruled in favor of what we had denounced, which is not information from Valeria, it is the union there that gave us the information, the workers from Artigas who raised the situation,” he said in an interview with radio Sport 890.
Although the former union leader, now a colleague Alvaro Delgado In the nationalist formula, he considered that it was good that Caram denounced at the time the irregularities in the payment of overtime, he also assured that he was not “going to justify what is wrong and for some reason the justice prosecuted.”
“I don’t know if people will expect today that because I am in the National Party “If I say something else or retract what I said, never, not at all. I will never defend what is wrong, and even less so if a colleague of mine does it, even though neither of us is in the National Party today, but I will not retract my statement at all, and the Justice Department ends up confirming that there were things that were being done wrong, why would I retract my statement?” he continued.
In this regard, he said that he was “very happy that they are no longer in the party.”
“The president of the National Party “He will never defend or justify prosecutions, nor will he organize marches to take as heroes those who are prosecuted, nor are they politically responsible positions assigned by the president. Here, what happened with Lorenzo or Calloia does not happen, where they stood behind them and today even the president of the Frente Amplio tells you that you have to thank a prosecuted minister for what he did for the country,” added Ripoll, referring to the former Frente Amplio Minister of Economy. Fernando Lorenzo and the former president of Republic Bank (BROU), Fernando Calloia, prosecuted for abuse of office in the case Pluma.
Without electoral effects
For his part, the presidential candidate National Party, Alvaro Delgado, He asked to be “very firm” with what he considered “notorious irregularities”, referring to the scandal in Artigas; and admitted being “concerned” and feeling “frustration” after the judicial action in the case regarding the irregular payment of extra hours in the Intendancy.
At a press conference, Delgado was asked if the sentences could affect his campaign for the general elections and he clarified: “If we had not done anything, they would certainly have. Obviously, the National Party is not directly responsible for the administration.”
He former Secretary of the Presidency He said he learned about the events from the press. “I spoke with Mayor Caram about the administrative investigation, and later I learned from him that he had filed a criminal complaint,” he admitted.
Source: Ambito
