The director of Coexistence and Citizen Security of the Ministry of the Interior, santiago gonzalez, I quit officially in charge after the controversy that arose around his care at the Police Hospital.
The news was confirmed after a meeting between González, the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, in the Executive Tower.
In his resignation letter, González expressed his gratitude for having had the opportunity to serve the Uruguayans for more than three years. He also referred to the “questions” about the inappropriate use of the Police Hospital and stated: “I have no right to put you in the uncomfortable position of having a person you trust be ethically questioned, so I take a step side stand”.
Santiago González said he was “proud” of his time at the Ministry of the Interior
The ex-hierarch assured that he had tried to give society, and therefore the government, “everything he had to give”. Along these lines, he stressed that he had taken away from his family and his children all the time he had to help people who needed and asked for a change in terms of security, and that he hoped to have achieved this change in some of they.
González ended his letter by thanking the president for the opportunity to have been able to serve the Uruguayans during this time and affirmed that he was a “man of the government and of the party.” and be “extremely proud” to belong to the executive of Lacalle Pou.
González’s resignation has generated surprise in the political sphere, since he served as one of the references in government security matters.
The controversy that triggered his resignation has generated a debate on ethics in the exercise of public function. First, González denied that the Police Hospital tickets were his, and asserted that the request for the drugs had been falsified in some way. However, changed his version at a recent press conference and said that Yes, he had received medicines “in an emergency”.
