“I am not going to enter into this politics of slander that some are trying to generate. I am going to maintain the level of the campaign, the citizens deserve that we maintain the level of the campaign,” he reacted. Alvaro Delgado following the police complaint filed on Wednesday against his running mate.
“It smells like someone has made a big deal out of him. It is a political mess that hopefully will be an exception in the campaign,” he added.
Ripoll was the subject of a complaint for alleged harassment of an 86-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man who are neighbours of her sister Joana, who was also accused.
According to the police report, the candidate entered the building where her sister lives, in the early hours of Sunday, along with four police officers. exMarket Modelto force the woman and her grandson to go and testify at police station 12.
The complaint against Ripoll was made by the lawyer Dario Madeirowho, according to the National Party He was a member of one of the lists of the Broad Front (FA) in Thirty-three in the internal elections.
Madeiro was the fourth substitute of the communist senator Oscar Andrade in the list 1808 in Montevideo for the election of national delegates. In addition, he occupied third place on the same list 1808 in Treinta y Tres, also to occupy a place in the National Deliberative Body, reported El País.
Valeria Ripoll considered that the complaint is part of a campaign against her. “Unfortunately, this type of political persecution ends up hurting the family. This episode did not start now. My sister has been reporting a situation of violence by a man who lives in the house in the back for a long time. This is not new, what is new is that I am the candidate for vice president of the National Party,” she said.
She added that since she joined the PN “I was expelled from the union that I led for 15 years, then I became a bad debtor because I had loans on my salary like most workers have.”
Delgado, for his part, pointed directly to the Broad Front“Some sides are going to fan the flames of these things, today with this, tomorrow with that. The stakes in this election are too high to continue with this soap opera politics and the mudslinging of things that are almost like a tenement house,” he said.
“I am very critical of the Broad Front with many of the things they did and did not do, with the errors and horrors they generated, and the uncertainties they generate,” he insisted.
Source: Ambito
