08/03/2020 - 13:31
- Clarín.com
- Politics
This Monday, a measure that the government decided to implement for the new stage of the quarantine that started was formalized: the prohibition of social and family gatherings throughout the country due to the increase in coronavirus infections. And it generated a strong controversy. Marcelo Longobardi, in the editorial of his radio program, made it clear that he found it "unacceptable" and "nonsense" .
"Having entered the fifth month of quarantine, since it started on March 19 and with relative success in some areas in Argentina, a decree by President Fernández is known that establishes unacceptable regulations on the level of individual freedom ", The journalist began on his Radio Miter program .
In that decision, he clarified that he agrees to put a brake on large social gatherings, but warned that he is totally against restricting freedoms in terms of family relations. "Establishing the prohibition with a prison sentence to go see a child , it seems to me that we entered an area that did not," he said.
The driver referred to the issue in various sections of his program and added that this decree "which prohibits meetings of all kinds in the country and basic, elementary and minimal issues such as someone entering a house," is actually "a folly". And he warned that "obviously" he is not going to fulfill it regarding the link with his family.
"You cannot abide by an order of this nature because it is wrong. Since when are these people going to regulate the relationship of parents with their children for half a year ? Please!" He said. "In my case, I really tell you, I am very sorry: the decree does not apply," he said.
In his words, the 26-page decree "is as unreadable as it is incomprehensible and unenforceable."
"That a decree regulates what happens inside people's houses, whatever the number of people, is unacceptable. With me they don't count, I warn you right now. That a family cannot receive a family or a family cannot Receiving a child after four months of quarantine is unacceptable . It is crazy. They would have to do as in China, where they soldered the door to people with the virus, "he said.
Longobardi, in addition, said that this measure enters "a lost area that is related to the other two themes of the day: the economy and Justice."
"Today we are on the verge of a default. This would ruin the lives of private companies in order to survive. A year ago, President Alberto Fernández already knew that he was going to be president, didn't he analyze that this could happen?" He asked himself. .
And he also criticized the attacks on Justice, with the project presented by the President: "We are facing a judicial reform that is going to end badly because it started badly . When things that start badly end badly, radicalization begins as a mechanism" .
"The presence of Dr. Carlos Beraldi in court -a lawyer defending Cristina Kirchner in various criminal cases-, ends up showing that everything is a rather unfortunate spectacle. We are already in trouble with the field, now also with justice. What is missing? ? The press, "he concluded.
