The colored sector citizens reaffirmed his trust in government and justice within the framework of the investigation on the actions of Alexander Astesianoformer head of the president’s custody Luis Lacalle Pou. He did it In a statement signed by the group in the National Convention who celebrated this Saturday.
“Ciudadanos expresses the absolute confidence in the independent action of the judicial system to determine the facts and the corresponding responsibilities,” indicates the resolution to which you agreed The Observer.
The president of the Chamber of Senators and member of the Ope Pasquet sector assured The Observer that the statement about Astesiano reached the end of the Citizens’ assembly, which closed the day. In the signature it was stated the “trust in the institutions” that the group has in this case, and “the need to continue the investigation” to find out the full background of the matterPasquet detailed.
“We wanted to express our confidence in the actions that are going ahead”explained for his part the Colorado deputy Felipe Schipani, also part of Ciudadanos, about the signed statement.
The prosecutor in the ex-custodian’s case, Gabriela Fossati, separated two causes to investigate the connection of Astesiano with different criminal acts. The first is based on what led to the arrest of the custodian, his link with a group that falsified documents of Russian citizens so that they would have access to Uruguayan documentation. The second, meanwhile, investigates the possible crimes in the “favors” that police officers did to the custodian.
The latest leaks of Astesiano’s cell phone messages, present in the tax file, generated various repercussions in the political sphere. Lacalle accused different members of the opposition, including the mayor of Canelones Yamandú Orsi, of give “handle” with the case; the mayor of Montevideo Caroline Cosse criticized that “a new barbarity appears every day” related to the former head of custody, and senator Sebastian da Silva assured that the issue has “re rotten” to the leaders of the coalition.
“The hasty judgments that some political sectors have made on a highly complex case are rejectedwhose investigation and satisfactory resolution by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation requires objectivity, support and prudence”, continues the writing of the political force.
The group also recalled that “In this case there are also people and families involved, whose lives are being strongly disrupted for him imprudent handling of the documents that make up the judicial file”.
In Ciudadanos they understand that this case must set a “precedent”in which if it is verified that public officials had illegal attitudes “They cannot remain in their posts and must be removed” in order to “send an unequivocal message to the public and to all those who assume governmental and administrative responsibilities.”
Single coalition list in 2025
In the Ciudadanos assembly, he signed another statement in which he assures that he will propose to the National Executive Committee (CEN) of the Colorado Party that “the party invites the other parties of the coalition” to “present themselves in the departmental elections of 2025 under a single slogan” that “compete in the 19 departments“, detailed Pasquet.
“If these agreements come to fruition, which must be resolved with the National Convention, the Colorado Party You must arbitrate the mechanisms to define your candidates and ensure that our community does not lose identity. Likewise, it must be guaranteed that all the Party lists that are presented in each department accumulate electorally,” the statement read.
The coalition presented itself under a single list in Montevideo in the 2020 departmental elections, with Laura Raffo as a candidate. In those elections the winner was the Frente Amplista Caroline Cosse, that obtained 51% of the votes over the 40% of the coalition.
