02/11/2020 - 20:33
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The controversy in the ruling party does not stop. Now it was the Minister of Security of Axel Kicillof , Sergio Berni , who went out to say that in Argentina " there are political prisoners." It was shortly before meeting his national pair, Sabina Frederic , with which he tried to lower the levels of the confrontation.
" Yes, I think that in Argentina there are political prisoners, that those political prisoners were present during the government of the engineer Macri and now justice will have to solve the problem, " said the minister, who usually says that his political boss is Cristina Kirchner and not Alberto Fernández.
Berni, however, clarified that it is an issue that was born in the previous administration. "Because we cannot blame the problem on it when we say that there are political prisoners ... it is not that we are blaming the problem on the national government. It is a problem that was generated during the administration of the Macri government."
He added: "All those people who were ideologically persecuted with the instruments of the state, call Afip or the intelligence secretariat, it seems to me that it will be Justice that will have to generate the mechanisms to amend the political persecutions carried out by the government of the engineer Macri"
Then, he defended Julio De Vido bluntly. " I absolutely believe in the innocence of De Vido, I have no doubt, because I have known him for many years , beyond that I have many differences sometimes even political, but I believe in his innocence because I have known him for many years and the truth that It still has no definition in the causes of corruption. "
The statements met the same day Berni met with Frederic, at the behest of Kicillof, in La Plata. In the photo they were seen smiling and with a work agenda, but the differences persist. Not only because of the "political prisoners" issue. Berni has been asking for the withdrawal of the national forces of the Province, something that the Casa Rosada does not see possible.
The controversy began this week when Santiago Cafiero, the chief of staff, declared on Continental radio that "in Argentina there are no political prisoners ." The head of Cabinet considered that there are people "unjustly" detained but that for that, Justice had to act.
On Friday, the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, defense lawyer for Milagro Sala, the Juirian Kirchnerist leader who has been under house arrest for a year, contradicted him: " I have no doubt that she is a political prisoner."
Upon returning from the extensive European tour Felipe Solá supported Cafiero's position and contradicted the Minister of Gender: "I would not say that there are political prisoners" "I would not say that there are political prisoners. There are prisoners that justice may not have prisoners but it is a Decision of the Judiciary, an independent power of the Executive There are cases of imprisonment that are not justified from the legal point of view, and that are linked to figures that have political prominence, which does not mean that there are political prisoners. is to take an opponent and put him in jail so that he does not speak, that he is not free, with a very specific objective: to take him out of the game. It seems to me that there are people who could be in his house and not because of his relevance " , Solá pointed out to the "Early Saturday" radio program Miter.
Julio De Vido responded on Monday to Alberto Fernández's statements about political prisoners, and again criticized Cafiero and Solá.
He did it through a series of tweets, shortly after the head of state said: "It bothers me that they say I have political prisoners because I don't have them."
"I am sorry to bother the President with the issue of political prisoners but I must tell him that this time the issue was installed by his Chief of Staff, I think he is appointed by decree," the former official wrote.
And he recommended to the president "to tell his Chief of Staff to keep prudent and respectful silence in the face of the brutal political persecution to which we were subjected."