Hierarchs of the IM appear in the Departmental Board after controversy over the title of director

El País reported days ago that the director of the Secretariat of Employability for Social Inclusion of the Municipality of Montevideo (IM), Gabriel Chevalierallowed until shortly before assuming the municipal position that he was presented as a sociologist when in reality he was not.

As a result of this information, the opposition councilors promoted the call to Cosse in a general commission regime to explain this situation. In the motion that they discussed in this Thursday’s session, they pointed out that there was “concern” about the public information referring to Chevalier’s tertiary education.

“Generating uncertainty regarding the training of the director and the possible misuse, in the public or private activity of tertiary titles that he would not hold,” adds the letter signed by the councilors and which was disclosed by the nationalist Javier Barrios Bove in his Twitter account. Twitter.

The motion concluded that the objective of the call would be to know Chevalier’s training, the studies he completed and if he finished them, as well as the “possible use in private activity or in the administration of titles that he does not have.”

This motion did not have the support of the Broad Front (FA), which in response drafted a new version, which established the immediate summons to one extraordinary session to receive in the That same Thursday night to representatives of the IM, in particular the deputy secretary Daniel González and the director of Environmental Development, Guillermo Moncecchi. The opposition councilors did not support this initiative with their votes, but the majority held by the ruling party allowed its approval.

While that urgent appearance was approved, the Mayor Cosse broadcast live from her Instagram account from a cultural activity of the Montevideo Late program, which was held at the Cabildo de Montevideo, a few meters from the Departmental Board.

The strategy adopted by the departmental ruling party generated controversy at the legislative level, since the opposition councilors denounced a maneuver to prevent the appearance from being prepared in time.

“It is seen that there is something shady, they asked to appear ‘between roosters and midnights’,” Barrios Bove wrote on his Twitter account.

For his part, the mayor of the FA, Claudio Visillac, responded: “Did they vote against receiving the Executive immediately because they wanted to prepare the session? If they are not prepared, why are they asking to appear? Once again they misuse a legislative tool I still recognize that this time it was less painful than the impeachment request.”

in dialogue with The Observer, the official mayor argued that they were “given the conditions” to receive the information from the administration immediately and that this was done. In addition, he pointed out that “authorities are summoned again to put on a show.” “The Board is once again being used as a stage for political actions that are disproportionate,” he said.