05/15/2021 1:45 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/15/2021 1:45 PM
The Attorney General of the Treasury, Carlos Zannini, who this week in public statements
defended his vaccination
and that of the journalist Horacio Verbitsky in a "VIP Vaccination" set up by the Ministry of Health of the Nation and which caused the departure of the Government of Ginés González García , now he
apologized.
"If I have
seemed arrogant,
I have not been correct in expressing myself and I apologize to (Jorge) Rial and everyone," he said, although he
again justified himself
and attacked the journalists who criticized him in dialogue with FM La Patriada.
The scandal unleashed in mid-February when the Ministry of Health organized a
secret vaccination operation
for leaders and friends that was sought to be kept strictly hermetic and that the journalist Horacio Verbitsky, one of the inoculated, strikingly aired, still generates controversy.
Again in the mouth of one of the vaccinated themselves.
This week Zannini attended the C5N program "Green Buds" and with his response to the query for the "VIP vaccination" rekindled the controversy: "No (I regret it) because I
knew that I was in the legal conditions to be vaccinated
. December the resolution arises, I go to the health authority because I am included (over 60 years with prevalent disease); I regret not having taken the photo at the time. We have not committed any violation of the rules (together with his wife) ".
After the rejection of the opposition, the criticism of the press and the statement of the driver Jorge Rial, who said that he would travel to Miami to get vaccinated for "the arrogance of Zannini", this Saturday the former Secretary General of the Presidency
rehearsed an apology which ended in justification.
I'm actually going to get vaccinated in Miami.
The wait for a turn was long and tedious.
But it was banking.
Even with the anger of my family.
However, Zannini's arrogant attitude made me make a decision that I had been avoiding: not to leave my health in the hands of politicians.
- JORGE RIAL (@rialjorge) May 14, 2021
"If I have seemed superb, which I am not, I have not been correct. What I did want to express is that
I was vaccinated when the vaccine was a poison
, on December 22. It was a
militant act and in defense of politics to
go to get vaccinated, today they say it is a privilege. I apologize not only to Rial and to everyone, I am not a superb person, "he said in dialogue with the program" Punto de Fuga "of
FM La Patriada
.
And he added: "If with my answer I have offended someone I apologize a thousand times, it will not be the first time I do it. Everyone forgets that Horacio Verbitsky is 79 years old, and there are many people in that situation and I hope they are all vaccinated. Unfortunately, enough vaccines are lacking,
but someone always goes first in line
. That is why I say that I did not violate any rule, I think that he
did not violate it either
because of his age he is in the target population. What
was not established was the order strict
because it depends on each of the jurisdictions. "
"The target population for vaccination is defined in Resolution 2883. It is not a moral debate, it is a legal debate, the resolution must be read. As there is a lack of vaccines and there is such a strong pressure from the pandemic, this issue is "It is dirty everywhere," Zannini argued this Saturday.
"Let's put the morals aside
, everyone has their own assessment of the facts. It was in legal conditions, it was part of the objective and that's where I stand."
Carlos Zannini, the Treasury Attorney, described the journalists who criticize him as "hitmen of the macrismo."
Photo: Federico Lopez Claro
But after that justification, Zannini charged against the press: "It is a debate that leads nowhere and can only be used to
weaken the voice that I have on other issues
and
that is the objective of all journalists,
that I I say pseudo journalists, who act as
assassins of macrismo
".
The cause for the IMF loan
The former presidential running mate along with Daniel Scioli also referred to the criminal complaint for indebtedness with the IMF: "This loan entered through one door and left through the other, we are not investigating the economic policy of macrismo or questioning that you have to pay that money,
we are not judging the Fund
(because they have immunity), but we are looking to know if a group of officials violated the law ”.
And he added "
Some crimes we already consider as proven,
the misuse of money has been proven, even the Fund said so. The stage to see who was responsible is early and
it is not advisable to condemn previously
as Macrismo did, criminalizing politics."
Argentine Mail Cause
"The Macri began to owe Menem, De la Rúa asked them for the canon, and when we reached a key moment they put political issues in order to avoid
paying, if they pay no one is still looking for someone else to pay, the law acts in a certain way The problem of the Post Office is solved with the payment, there is no persecution of any kind,
"said Zannini, now the Treasury Attorney.
And he again referred to the press: "There are journalists who act as macrista hitmen and say that it is unfair to criticize Macri for this debt that comes from the 90s.
They look for political reasons not to pay
and it hurts me when politics is used in a a case that is purely economic. Prosecutor Boquín faced the cause alone while they were in government and deserves all the laurels if ever a peso of this debt is charged, "concluded Zannini.
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