The coordinator of the Frente Amplio bench, Liliam Kechichian, contacted Vice President Beatriz Argimón to set up an extraordinary session this Thursday to make a “charter statement”confirmed the opposition senator to The Observer.
The instance’s objective is to have “unanimous support” for senators Charles Carrera and Mario Bergara after the Vertical Skies company requested the former head of presidential custody, Alejandro Astesiano, to put together “two files” with personal information to “tie ” to legislators and prevent them from taking the port concession to the Katoen Natie company to court, according to La Diaria.
Kechichian maintained that Argimón will summon an inter-party meeting this Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. to refine the details. “This implies a proposal linked to the affectation of the privileges that this news means that two senators were investigated and persecuted for the purpose of blackmail. Beyond the fact that there are two investigated, the attack is against the entire Parliament”declared the former Minister of Tourism.
The Frentista senator confirmed that the leftist coalition intends to pass the proceedings of that parliamentary session to the Prosecutor’s Office, but they hope that “it will be a joint gesture” of the entire political system. The opposition seeks that these derivations of the Astesiano case, which is in charge of the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati, be analyzed in another fiscal folder.
The Broad Front met urgently this Tuesday morning after learning of Astesiano’s chats with the owner of the Vertical Skies company, which is based in Miami. “There was espionage on two senators, and not just any espionage, the intention was to extort them,” attacked the president of the political force, Fernando Pereira. “It is not that the folders are built in bookstores, they are built by the intelligence of the countries. There we have to put a focus now,” she said.
From the ruling party, white senators Jorge Gandini and Gustavo Penadés have already expressed their solidarity towards the frontist legislators. Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, said that if the information contained in the chats is confirmed, “it would not be serious, it would be very serious.”
