Lucia Salinas
05/26/2021 12:24 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/26/2021 12:24 PM
President Alberto Fernández will demand in civil justice compensation for the statements of Patricia Bullrich, president of the PRO, about alleged acts of corruption around the contract with Pfizer, which never materialized for the arrival of vaccines to the country. The lawyer Gregorio Dalbón will be responsible for initiating
a civil action for damages against honor
. Despite having a mediation hearing, the head of state has already ordered that nothing be agreed there. In addition, the attorney will ask that Pfizer reiterate its denial under oath. If he wins the lawsuit, the president anticipated that the money that the court orders to pay
him will go to the Malbrán Institute.
On Monday when the nine-day confinement is supposed to end, Patricia Bullrich will receive the summons for the mediation hearing, which is mandatory in civil lawsuits.
President Alberto Fernández will participate in this meeting with the lawyer Gregorio Dalbón, and the former Minister of Security
with his legal advisor.
Everything will be done virtually.
It will be the starting point for the lawsuit for damages against honor due to the accusations of the PRO holder for
alleged acts of corruption around the failed agreement with Pfizer
for the purchase of vaccines by the Argentine State.
"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 8 million are missing to complete the vaccines for those over 60 years old," Bullrich said this Tuesday.
In a brief statement,
the US laboratory clarified on Monday that it had not received requests for bribes
from the government "at any time" during the negotiation that has resulted so far.
In a kind of clarification, Bullrich warned that "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. And
or I'll give you a Cristóbal López, a Lázaro Báez
, someone who guarantees me that I'm going to have a part in this. "
Along the same lines, the opposition leader said that what former minister Ginés González García was doing is "asking 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 does not listen ".
Faced with the controversy, Alberto Fernández decided to initiate a civil action, since since 2009 insults cannot be penalized and that is why it is acted upon in that jurisdiction, especially when they are "insults that refer to events of public interest, as in this case." the lawyer Dalbón explained to
Clarín
.
According to the plaintiffs, Bullrich's statements are "of significant institutional gravity, as president of the main opposition party with statements that insult the President of the Nation," said the lawyer.
On the other hand, the President together with the lawyer Dalbón will ask to summon Pfizer executives, so that under oath of law they reiterate what was stated in the press release.
Faced with
the possibility of being forced to pay compensation, Bullrich did not flinch:
"I come for my property I have an apartment and a car, I'm not Kichnerista; I do not live in Puerto Madero and to justice take all necessary evidence."
, said this Tuesday in TN.
