02/20/2021 4:41 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/20/2021 4:56 PM
In the midst of the VIP Vaccination scandal, for which Ginés González García was fired from the Ministry of Health, President Alberto Fernández had a conversation with Evo Morales and with a group of Bolivian deputies who proposed him for the
Nobel Peace Prize .
Legislators from the neighboring country are promoting the candidacy of President Fernández for his "
determined and courageous attitude that allowed
Morales
to save his life."
And as reported from the Casa Rosada, the candidacy was recently accepted by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
For these efforts, the Argentine Head of State led a videoconference from the Olivos Residence in which Morales, Senator Leonardo Loza and Deputy Gualberto Arispe Maita were present, legislators who promote the initiative together with their peers Santos Mamani Espinoza and Grobert Nogales Grageda .
It is the first official activity that was known after the scandal that broke out the day before and that ended with the departure of González García from the Government.
Official spokesmen indicated that during the meeting with Morales and with the legislators who represent the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, the President assured that "he would do the same thing a thousand times" that he did for the end of 2019 when he attended the former president of Bolivia who was forced to resign after a bloody coup.
"I would do the same a thousand times. I only did what a good and democratic man should do,"
stressed Alberto Fernández.
And I add.
“If at some point I felt that I fulfilled a task, it was when I hugged you on the bridge and you returned to your land, at that moment I saw that we achieved the objective.
The only merit of mine was taking care of someone so dear to Bolivians and helping democracy to return as much as possible.
Alberto Fernández accompanied Evo Morales on his return to Bolivia.
AP Photo.
Meanwhile, Evo Morales pointed out: “What you did for Bolivia, for democracy, for my life is something unprecedented, something unique in the world.
After I returned, some leaders asked me how we can thank him, that was the general feeling and thus the idea of presenting him as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize came up.
In addition, he stressed that during the 11 months he lived in Argentina "I felt at home, the solidarity and affection of all Argentines."
Finally, Bolivian Senator Leonardo Loza (MAS), stated that “without thinking twice
we have decided that our brother president of Argentina has to go to the Nobel Peace Prize for taking care of democracy,
the life of our Bolivian brothers, of our brother Evo Morales".
"For the love of life and democracy, you deserve it," he stressed.
In their proposal, the deputies consider that Fernández "is a jurist who was always committed to the cause and practice of human rights in Argentina and in Latin America" and emphasized that his actions in support of Morales and his former vice president Alvaro García Linera, "
also allowed the recovery of democratic institutions
and put an end to the persecution and discrimination suffered by indigenous peoples during the coup on November 10, 2019."
In the presentation before the Committee, they admit that "our democracy owes much to President Fernández and his policy of active solidarity with Bolivia."
After making a detailed review of Fernández's academic and political career, the proposal highlights that as President “he proposed to deepen the democratization process by emphasizing the need to improve the functioning of justice and enacting advanced legislation that would allow ending the discrimination and inequality, particularly with regard to gender issues ”.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for the selection of candidates and the election of the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize and is composed of five members appointed by the Parliament of that Scandinavian country.
Candidates for the award must be nominated by qualified individuals, such as members of national assemblies.
In early October, the Committee selects them through a majority vote to finally deliver the Award in Oslo, on December 10.
