The senator of National Party, Gustavo Penadés, has announced that he will request a license in the upper house while his personal situation is clarified, which has involved him in a series of public accusations for alleged sexual abuse and exploitation of minors. The Senator’s Decision blacksmith It was taken in the last few hours and shared with his closest circle, according to political sources told the newspaper The country.
Penadés had already been considering taking this step since last Friday because, in addition to facing the circumstances, “he is not in a position to be in Parliament”, because “it would make other legislators of the National Party uncomfortable”.
“We cannot enter the room with him sitting there,” said a member of his bench, who chose to remain anonymous. “If you want the party, you have to step aside,” he added.
The license will be formally processed after tourism weekat the next session of the Chamber of Senators, on Tuesday, April 11. For the moment, according to the sources consulted, Penadés has not determined “the number” of days in which he will be absent from parliamentary tasks, which have kept him throughout this period of government as one of the most important protagonists of the ruling party, leading all the negotiations within the multicolored coalition and even with the Broad Front.
penades has been at the center of the controversy since the beginning of last week, when the white militant Romina Celeste Papasso Oliver said publicly that he herrerista legislator he would have paid her to have sex when she was a minor, more than 15 years ago.
Along with this complaint, others have emerged, such as those reported by the Santo y Seña program on Channel 4 this Sunday. At least two people have called the legal office of the University of the Republic to find out the formalities that must be fulfilled in case of making a complaint before the Prosecutor’s Office.
However, these people have not yet confirmed whether they intend to take legal steps, according to the person in charge of this office at the Law School of the University of the Republic, Juan Raúl William. They are consultations, he added, that were carried out by those who claimed to be victims or to be related to victims of the alleged abuses committed by Penadés.
Meanwhile, the senator’s lawyer, Javier Vegatold the aforementioned newspaper that they are still analyzing the case and that, for the moment, the nationalist leader has not filed the defamation complaint that he had announced last Wednesday during the public statement in which he denied all the accusations.
“We are in a permanent evaluation,” said Vega, who is waiting for a communication from the Prosecutor’s Office, something that had not arrived until Monday. Anyway, to the lawyer “He is not aware” that any complaint has been filed against his client.
In the National Party, the issue has been constantly being analyzed at the board level, as defined by the Political Affairs Commission last week.
