Over the next few days, the Broad Front will promote the reactivation of a motion for the Senate to discuss and rule on the “misconduct” in which, he affirms, the nationalist senator Graciela Bianchi incurs. For this, the opposition will request the consideration of a motion that since the end of last year has been under study by the Constitution and Legislation Commission in which Bianchi, third in line for her presidential succession, is accused of “deviation of power” and of “dishonor” to the camera.
The decision was made after some episodes in the last hours in which the senator, according to the Broad Front, incurred in the promotion of “fake news” and hateful content. Bianchi was at the center of the controversy last Monday after uploading on his Twitter account a photomontage of the elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, together with the renowned Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, after the victory of the left-wing candidate this Sunday. On several occasions, Bianchi refused to acknowledge the error, called for “abstraction” with the reading of the original tweet, disqualified an investigation by a news agency, and assured that “reality is not a montage.”
This Tuesday, Senator made an error again by accusing the former attorney general, Jorge Díaz, of having placed his wife at the head of the Directorate of the Department of Victims of that office, in the midst of the political controversy over the sanction of prosecutor Raúl Iglesias.
“As a member of the Senate, I am ashamed of his attitude,” said to The Observer Senator Charles Carrera (MPP), who argued that the chamber should “get your attention” to your colleague. In his view, it was “very serious” that Bianchi linked Petro to drug trafficking. Something that for Carrera could have brought Uruguay into a conflict with Colombia. “Bianchi has no limits, he doesn’t care that what he spreads is a lie, he doesn’t care about anything”, he protested.
The Frente Amplio legislator maintained that the Senate must discuss the issue and, from there, each party will adopt a position. “We’ll see whose side each one is on,” he said. “You cannot be promoting so much hate and lies.”
The motion of the Broad Front against Bianchi had been submitted earlier December of last year, after the senator requested reports on the functional situation of Mabel Mallo, the leader of the Association of Officials of UTU (AFUTU) who had a public counterpoint with President Luis Lacalle Pou.
On that date, Bianchi faced his fellow Frente Amplio player Enrique Rubio in a contradiction in full commission. Rubio accused her that day of being “out of her mind” after the nationalist senator threatened him with “enforcing the gender law” in the framework of a discussion about access to the press at the session of the Constitution Commission.
