05/25/2021 10:29 AM
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Updated 05/25/2021 10:33 AM
Amid questions to the Government for not having closed a contract with Pfizer to obtain its vaccine against the coronavirus and the announcement of legal actions by President Alberto Fernández against Patricia Bullrich, the president of the PRO ratified her statements against the Government, although she clarified that
"They did not ask for bribes" from the North American company
.
In the last hours, Bullrich had
accused
the former Minister of Health Ginés González García of asking for bribes to close the contract for the arrival of these vaccines to the country.
Through a brief statement, Pfizer indicated that it had not received requests for bribes from the Government
"at any time"
of the negotiation that was frustrated until now.
The president announced that he will denounce Bullrich in court and his legal representative will be Gregorio Dalbón, Cristina Kirchner's controversial lawyer.
This Tuesday, the PRO leader reaffirmed her statements: "Here the President should analyze and
judge those who did not sign a contract
that meant that Argentina did not have 14 million vaccines, which means that there are 8 million missing to complete the vaccines for over 60 years old ".
Regarding Pfizer's denial, Bullrich clarified: "He is right because
Pfizer was not asked for bribes
. Pfizer was asked that to sign the contract there had to be a national counterpart. The matrix of the way Kirchnerism works is this. I'll give you a Cristóbal López, a Lázaro Baez, someone who guarantees me that I'm going to have a part in this. "
"What the minister [Ginés González García] does is ask a company to participate. This intermediary that I have been raising for a long time and now
the President got angry
, but I have been saying it for months and he does not listen ... If I am President and I have a crisis and the country is closed, I call the Minister of Health every holy day to ask him why the contract is not signed, "said Bullrich in dialogue with
radio Rivadavia.
"At that time, it was thought that with the AstraZeneca we were going to be Gardel and Le Pera. We were not. Because the AstraZeneca got stuck, had problems and
defaults,
" he chicaneled.
Syringes with the Pfizer vaccine against covid-19 at a vaccination center in Paris.
AP Photo.
In relation to the complaints against him, Bullrich stated that he does not have to "defend himself against anything."
And he pointed out: "The National Government has to explain why vaccines were not bought. I do not have any judicial strategy, I am going to tell the truth, which is that
the vaccine is not there
."
"I have all the necessary information, that is why I asked the president if he wants to know the truth, I did not accuse myself but rather investigate those who did not bring the vaccine.
Let him look inside his government
, there are those responsible," he remarked.
In addition, the former Minister of Security pointed to the
Government VIP vaccinated when remembering that Pfizer vaccines "have a GPS." In that sense, he said: "Imagine the level of control and that GPS going to all the VIP places where people were vaccinated. Pfizer would have made the mechanism of
partisation of the vaccine
difficult
, among other things."
Finally, Bullrich sent a message to the President: "Quote me. I am going to the Government House today and I explain to you so that you can put all the officials who prevented Argentina from having those 14 million vaccines today. the President has to concentrate.
Do not persecute those who tell you the truth.
Go and search. And if you were lied to and he allowed himself to be lied and did not worry about the importance of having those vaccines, he is also responsible. "
Dark negotiation
Regarding the government's failed negotiation with Pfizer, Bullrich explained that "there was a possibility of
early purchase
of the vaccine, which no country had and at that time we were at the forefront of science."
He also pointed out that the government's negotiations with Pfizer last year, "which put us at the forefront of the countries," began to "
enter a dark
and increasingly less understandable
zone
."
"I reconstructed all the data and conversations, and I have spoken with all the necessary people to arrive at these conclusions.
I have everything armed in a chronogram
of why things happened," he added about his complaint.
In addition, he remarked that "Pfizer was not asking for a change in the law, it was only asking
for surety insurance
, the same as it asked any of the more than 80 countries that are using this vaccine."
Patricia Bullrich again targeted Ginés González García and Alberto Fernández.
"They are the safeguards that
Sputnik also has
or any vaccine that in an experimental stage comes out on the market without the maturation time that a vaccine has to have, said Bullrich.
"There they begin to give a series of excuses. The reality is that Ginés González García
demands that there be an Argentine counterpart,
being quite contradictory because Argentine Pfizer has existed for many years," added the PRO leader.
"The explanations they gave were always
shameful
. It was not necessary to change the law. Here those who have to explain what step are the President, Ginés, the second [of González García], who is now a minister, and all those who participated, among those who are an official named Terragona, directly linked to Sigman ", listed Bullrich.
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