The President of the Republic, Mario Abdo Benítez, fired without saying a word at former President of the Republic Horacio Cartes, stating that if Cartes is a candidate, Abdo will seek to be his direct rival.
This speech was given within the framework of a political campaign presentation held in the department of Cordillera.
«I face him head-on, not like him, silent at home, he calls himself the victim, but his media outlet paid with money from illicit business all day okopi che rehe day and night. But he is silent, he does nothing, he does not speak ill of anyone. I don’t have the means of communication, so I’m going to confront him with my face uncovered. And I hope he faces me like that too and not hiding behind his media. Democratically and with courage we are going to face each other », he shouted.
In addition, the current president reported that his education was always marked by values and that he does not come to lie to the people to win an election, nor to manipulate people, “as they did and do,” he asserted.
Abdo affirmed that “everything that is said about him is a lie” and he took as a “recourse’i” to try to manipulate people, using his means to defame the other candidates.
«If there is something that I must account for, I am going to account, there is no problem, but go out and defame people, go out and lie to the people; that won’t come out. Evil, hatred, resentment and manipulation will not triumph. We’re going to go out and talk to our people with the truth and don’t even get mad at us because we’re going to keep telling the truth. Because he who walks a crooked path, walks with crooked people, there is no other and he was imprisoned as a currency evader, his business is an illegitimate business, it makes him work with people who have problems, “he said.
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In addition, Abdo declared that about Roque Fabiano Silvera, a partner of Cartes in Salto del Guairá, revealing that the arrest warrants in the United States and the arrest warrant in Brazil for homicide; it could also link Cartes with Brazilian justice.
«It’s all a matter of just looking at the papers, it’s not my invention. I think he is angry because recently that Iranian plane that arrived in the country brought cigarettes from Tabesa, and what fault do I have if those cigarettes were there, on a plane where the crew was full of terrorists, what fault do I have? I am going to investigate my part and if there is any member of my government, someone from Dinac, from Customs, who has been an accomplice of terrorism, let the full weight of the law fall on the officials who are accomplices of terrorism », he said. .
He added that if Cartes’ company had something to do with that plane, he cannot do anything about it, and that he will work in the same way that any crime deserves.
“They realize that he was selling to his own company in the United States. And what fault do I have that his representative in Israel, his referent who took him on a trip, Darío Messer, today is imprisoned in Brazil for money laundering. If that was his representative before the people of Israel; What fault do I have? But he gets mad at us », he detailed.
Regarding the criticism from society about the decisions that Abdo made in terms of foreign policy, the president attacked his rival saying that he made the best decisions, because compared to Cartes, he only used foreign policy to do business, because its north is money and it cannot be governed when a person’s north is money.
“He used his relationship with Israel to do business. Or does he have no business with Israel? And his representative with Israel is in jail for money laundering. But who were the ones who really protected the people of Israel, who discovered the terrorists who wanted to destroy the State of Israel, us. With Taiwan the same thing. He is supposedly a great protector of Taiwan and today someone in his family is doing business with orchids with Taiwan. He uses his power to do business and that’s how he was president of the Republic too, “he said.
Finally, to close his speech, he raised his voice and stated that «Power is there to serve the people and not to accumulate wealth, much less to protect criminals and criminal acts. And that is the threat we have today. We have two models in front of us to defend, we have a democracy with its imperfections, but what is the other alternative model that we have, a criminal model that needs power so that they have impunity. They need the power to continue accumulating strategic goods that belong to the Paraguayan people », he concluded.
