03/17/2021 11:57 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/17/2021 12:07
After having been one of the leaders who were part of the VIP vaccination scandal that the Government mounted in the Ministry of Health and that cost Ginés González García his position, the Peronist leader Hilda "Chiche" Duhalde questioned that they did not give her the second dose of Sputnik V against the coronavirus and that
they made him "waste his time
.
"
"It's been a long time since the first dose, I think I wasted time,
they haven't given me the second dose. I don't know what the maximum term is
," Duhalde launched.
The wife of former president Eduardo Duhalde was one of the beneficiaries, along with members of his family, when they received the coronavirus vaccine at home.
After insisting that she did not consult or do anything after receiving the first dose, the leader assured that she suffered everything that happened after the vaccination: "I did nothing more than suffer this situation and all this onslaught that still seems unfair to me." Duhalde specified in an interview with radio
La Once Diez.
The Peronist leader Hilda "Chiche" Duhalde.
Photo: Maxi Failla.
He remarked over and over again that he no longer wants to talk about it, but again pointed out that he is "angry" about what happened and that he
does not regret it because "he had to
.
"
"We appeared on a Posadas list. I don't even want to talk about that, because they are things that go through your head. How can you not get angry. It's like continuing to add fuel to the fire and I don't feel like it anymore. I regret it, I had to do it and that's it, but I don't want to continue talking about that, "he said.
Hours earlier, in an interview with the LN + channel, she had announced that the vaccine for her and her family "was a way to silence us, because I was one of the few people who spoke."
And he added: "I have said very strong things, we were one of the few people who were being very harsh with the government."
On that occasion, and after detaching herself from the scandal, the Buenos Aires Peronist leader assured that she now wants to "regain the opportunity" to speak.
"The possibility of saying not only what I think but also what I know," he warned.
"I do not feel like a VIP vaccinated," she clarified before providing details on how she accessed the medication outside of the official protocol that was established to immunize the population.
She confirmed that it was Alejandro Costa, the second of the then secretary of Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti, who attended her home in Lomas de Zamora at the beginning of February to apply the vaccine to her, her husband, and her two daughters María Eva and Juliana, and the secretary of former president Carlos Mao.
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