The National Party included in its agenda for the Directory session this Monday the issue of the Canarian mayor, John Lopezwho voted in favor of the approval of the trust that the Municipality of Canelones required to carry out important sanitation and infrastructure works.
With his vote, the Yamandú Orsi government agreed to the US$44 million trust fund, and this generated annoyance in the PN from the very top. So much so that, the day after the approval, the president of the Board of Directors, Pablo Iturralde, had called a press conference in which he announced that he would be expelled from the political force because “the facts mean that he has been placed outside the party.” .
For his part, López decided in the end not to present his formal resignation, which he had discussed with Iturralde, and stated that he wanted to be received by the nationalist Directory to justify his vote.
As published by the newspaper The countryCiting sources inside the PN, the Directory will discuss the issue this Monday and will begin to analyze the steps to follow; subsequently, Iturralde will announce what is next with the mayor.
According to the sources, what will be debated is whether the Board agrees to receive López at some point, or whether the issue should be referred to the Ethics Commission to judge his actions.
not so nice
On April 5, the government of Canelones managed to get the Departmental Board to approve the US$44 million trust, which came to fruition with heavy adjustments because it is half of what was tried to be approved last year and was blocked by the multicolor coalition.
The crack in the PN occurred because the mayor López voted positive, under the argument that “in Canelones we cannot continue waiting. Canelones needs money for works that are pending”.
The discontent was generalized in the nationalist stores, starting with Richard Charamelo, leader of the National Alliance sector, to which López belonged and from which he was expelled, who said that he was “disaligned” from the single party position that is governed “by a directory and by the majority”.
“It is shameful of a man who wants to be president (alluding to Orsi) and of a mayor who is sold at I don’t know what price,” said the mayor of the nationalist List 33, Alejandro Repetto, who responds to Sebastián Andújar.
For her part, the ultra-conservative senator, Graciela Bianchi, spoke of López’s “price of dignity” when sharing a journalistic note in which she spoke of the approval of the loan.
Senator Sebastián Da Silva insinuated that López had been “bought” because the process was “a maneuver that says a lot about the one who buys votes and the one who sells himself.”
