04/30/2020 - 19:34
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Foreign Minister Felipe Solá's presentation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by videoconference included an unusual scandal, after the official insulted a legislator for Together for Change.
"You asshole, " he was heard muttering to the chancellor, as the microphones picked up. The expletive was the closing of his response to the Tucuman Silvia Elías de Pérez , who minutes before had asked him about the repatriation of the Argentines stranded abroad in the midst of the quarantine due to coronavirus.
“The worst of all this is the place that each one of us occupies. He is the chancellor, the head of Argentine diplomacy. It is incredible that this man has handled himself in this way. I am concerned about the place he occupies, "the radical senator told Clarín .
During the virtual meeting, Elías de Pérez, pointed out to the official that in Argentina doctors are needed, so he demanded that “bring the Argentine professionals who have completed their specializations and are stranded abroad, especially in Spain, where they also there is a group of doctors from Tucumán ”.
"The answer he gives me is the key to understanding what follows. Because it tells me that being a doctor means not being ready to face the pandemic. He speaks of public health as something that is discredited , with hostile places, where they earn little. Therefore these doctors will come to attend their offices in San Isidro . That is what bothers me, "said the legislator.
And he detailed: “When I start the second part, I cannot let it pass because his answer is full of prejudices. That bothered him a lot and there he told me that I changed his ball. He made a huge mix. Later he tells me that the Argentine doctors were the best in the world, already going to the other extreme and also teasing the way he said it. Here comes the insult. "
Pérez de Elías remarked that this incident "shows the characteristics of who today occupies the Chancellery ." “The chancellor has to have a special temper. You have important matters on your hands. It is key and fundamental that he be a person with balance and a lot of control over himself ”, he commented.
In that sense, she said she felt "worried". "If a simple question, if someone because he does not agree with his vision, the foreign minister is going to get out and answer as he answered, it leaves me very concerned because there are many interests of Argentina that are in his hands," he said. .