The substitute deputy for the National Party, Aldo Lamorte, will be sued by the Italian Embassy in Uruguay, after the legislator released a video on Instagram in which he explains to Uruguayans how to vote with Italian citizenship, but using the ballot with someone else’s name.
In the tutorial that Lamorte uploaded on social networks, he is heard explaining how to vote in both Deputies and Senators, for the Italian Parliament, for the list of the Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE).
Everything seems normal in the video until it shows near the camera a sheet from which a stub must be cut that must be inserted with the ballots in the envelope that is sent through collection networks in Uruguay.
According to publish the middle Online Politics, a Uruguayan journalist discovered that Lamorte was holding in his hand the sheet with the name of a woman with the surname De Bellis. He managed to locate her and found that she had not received hers over hers and had not voted.
The Uruguayan nationalist legislator deleted the video from his social networks, but it had already spread and now appears in different
The video is as follows:
could affect the result
The Brazilian senator, Fabio Porta, has already denounced possible electoral crimes committed in the foreign instances of the Italian elections.
Porta has filed complaints in the past about possible embezzled electoral envelopes in Argentina and Venezuela, and now accuses Lamorte of committing fraud. “The MAIE representative, Aldo Lamorte, publishes a video in which he shows his vote making propaganda in favor of his party, having in his hands not his personal ballot, but that of a voter who, apparently, did not receive the envelope and He has no knowledge of what happened.” wrote Portal on its official website.
“It is a very serious episode because it constitutes a clear violation of the electoral law and because its protagonist is a Uruguayan parliamentarian who, in recent years, played important roles in the Italian community in Uruguay, until he was appointed by MAIE as a representative on the Council. General of Italians Abroad”, stated the Brazilian legislator.
Finally, Porta asked the leaders of MAIE to disassociate themselves from this “illegal conduct” and the Italian ambassador in Uruguay to formalize the complaint.
On the Sundays of this Sunday, the Italian citizenry elects 400 deputies and 200 senators. South America has 2 seats in Deputies and one in Senators.
Aldo Lamorte (Maie Uruguay) votes for another person and if he films committing a crime IL VIDEO PUBBLICATO SUI SOCIAL //t.co/7AUDSstCnb
– Italy Uruguay (@Italia_Uruguay) September 22, 2022
Lamorte and an eviction of vulnerable families
Aldo Lamorta had starred in another controversy in 2020, when a company he leads had led the eviction of 200 families in a vulnerable situation to build a private neighborhood.
According to published The Daily On July 29 of that year, the property of the Santa María Eugenia settlement, in a rural area to the east of Montevideo, was inhabited by some 200 families who received an eviction order in 2016 from the Monte Platino SA company.
The portal Southeast reported at the time that the property belongs to the company Lamorte & Asociados, which is chaired by Deputy Lamorte. The settlement has been on this land for more than 40 years.
Sudestada’s investigation explains that, six years before Monte Platino began the eviction process from Santa María Eugenia, the company had bought four pieces of land for US$306,850 “which comprise the entire property where the neighborhood is located,” according to the data. of sale of the judicial file. The land for sale will have an area of between 600 and 1,200 square meters.
The cited portal says that both Monte Platino and Lamorte & Asociados and Facemill SA, have the same fiscal domicile. Additionally, both are made up of the same people.
Even the head of Monte Platino, Francisco Campiglia, was a candidate for the Montevideo Departmental Convention of the National Party for the Civic Union, on the list led by Lamorte. Sudestada consulted Lamorte about these alleged links, but he flatly denied having any relationship with Monte Platino.
