The Broad Front issued a statement on Thursday night, condemning the attack against the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was the victim of an attack on the same day.
An individual of Brazilian nationality and with a criminal record brought a weapon up to the face of the Peronist politician and triggered it, but no projectile came out.
“We stand in solidarity with Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the face of this very serious event,” the FA said in its statement. “We demand the rapid clarification of it and the corresponding legal actions. Likewise, we exhort our brother Argentine people to reject all manifestations of intolerance and hatred and to defend with conviction, firmness and serenity, at the same time, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence, essential for institutionality and the full validity of democracy”, he adds. and concludes the statement of the leftist political force.
The government waited
While various regional political leaders expressed their repudiation of the event almost immediately, the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou, decided to wait until Friday morning to express himself
Until this Friday morning, the president had not issued any message either through a personal Twitter account @LuisLacallePou or through the official networks of the Presidency of the Republic.
However, at 8:27 a.m. this Friday, the president wrote a tweet in which he stated: “Violence can never, never be tolerated under any circumstances. My solidarity with Ms. Cristina Fernández and all the Argentine people in the face of the attack”.
