The decision, which allows him to continue leading the departmental government, was made in an extraordinary session by the organization, which analyzed whether it was appropriate to withdraw his citizenship, which would have disqualified him from holding his position.
The president of the Electoral Court, Wilfredo Penco, and the ministers Juan Máspoli, José Garchitorena, Arturo Silvera and Ana Lía Piñeyrua voted in favor of maintaining their citizenship. Alberto Castelar, José Korzeniak, Pablo Klappenbach and Cristina Arena spoke out against it.
Besozzi told EL ECO that he was “prepared for everything, because if they took away my citizenship, I would do accordingly,” he said. According to him, he worked until noon on Monday, waiting for the resolution, and had even already spoken with part of his team about the possibility of leaving office: “I told several here, at the secretariat level and the directors, even Andrea Aunchayna, that she might be the mayor tomorrow,” he added.
Besozzi stressed that he faced the process calmly, although he admitted that there were moments of tension. “Logically, my heart was always and my mind thinking about what could happen,” he said, and questioned the technical nature of the organization, keeping in mind that “it is a legal body, but I saw that it had become politicized.”
The mayor also referred to the political background of the vote. In his view, there was a clear partisan alignment in the ruling. “The entire Frente Amplio voted to remove my citizenship, and the coalition, the whites, voted no. Now I wonder: if I had been Frente Amplio, would it have been the other way around?”
Besozzi also pointed out against the prosecutor who is carrying out the investigation because he does not forget that he is “accused by a prosecutor, who is being sued because his Facebook was full of things in favor of the Broad Front and against the National Party,” he stated.
“I am innocent, I have a clear conscience,” he concluded.
The judicial case in which the departmental head of Soriano is involved continues its course in parallel to the resolution of the Electoral Court, which, for now, allows him to continue in office while his situation is clarified before the Justice.
