The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, considers that there is no “demerit” in the relationship with the president Luis Lacalle Pou with the former Custody Alejandro Astesiano. On the contrary, he affirmed that there is a “merit” of the management of the current government and of the president himself in the case that investigates the defendant for belonging to a gang of document falsification.
Asked about the president’s declining popularity, Heber said there is a “big gratuitous attack” on him for the cause.
“Why free? Because the Police dismantle an organization that had been operating since 2013. They want to take the issue elsewhere when the organization has been in place since 2013 and before it was not perceived by the previous authorities,” Heber said at a press conference.
The Secretary of State regretted that Astesiano is part of the criminal gang, but stressed that Lacalle “placed himself at the orders of Justice.”
«What is the demerit that the Police discovered the organization? And what happened in the previous nine years where the police had passed the falsification of passports and didn’t realize it? ”, He reflected. “It should be a merit of the government, the president, the Police,” she added.
“An organization was dismantled and now we are in a demerit because they had recruited a custodian within the organization a year and a half ago,” he summarized.
The calls of the FA
On the other hand, Heber referred to the possibility that the bench of deputies of the Broad Front call him to appear before the camera to question him on issues related to security. In this sense, he affirmed that the opposition “abuses” the call-to-room tool.
If it is abused, “it does not have the effect it should have, because if I go to an interpellation every month it has no impact,” he said.
«I have no objection to going to Parliament to give explanations. For me it is a democratic act. But I am going to finish, in the year and a half that I have, with eight questions, I think it is a new record », he affirmed.
«Now an interpellation is announced, I have two interpellations. I have already had six, between calls to a general commission and interpellations. And now I have an announcement for the month of December by the senators who were going to question me, I don’t know with which other minister, and now this announcement, “he concluded.
