06/27/2021 10:57 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 06/27/2021 10:57 PM
Alberto Fernández demands
100 million pesos
from Patricia Bullrich after the former minister's statements about the truncated negotiations between the national government and Pfizer to bring more vaccines against the coronavirus to Argentina.
Nine days after the failed virtual mediation hearing, the confirmation came this Sunday night through
Gregorio Dalbón
, the president's lawyer.
"The President of the Nation filed a lawsuit against
Bulrich (sic) for ($ 100 Million)
. The defamation in relation to the negotiations with the PFIZER laboratory vaccine enters the judicial stage," wrote the lawyer, who promotes several causes of Kirchnerism.
And he concluded: "The President will donate all the compensation
to the Malbrán Institute
, as he already said."
The President of the Nation filed a lawsuit against Bulrich for ($ 100 Million).
The defamation in relation to the negotiations with the PFIZER laboratory vaccine enters the judicial stage.
The President @alferdez will donate all the compensation to the Malbrán Institute as he said.
- Gregorio Dalbon (@Gregoriodalbon) June 28, 2021
Dalbón is the same lawyer who announced a lawsuit against Elisa Carrió, because supposedly the representative of the Civic Coalition accused the President of poisoning.
He also promotes presentations against Jorge Lanata.
One of them is from Juan Grabois, who alleges "damages" from a PPT journalistic report.
And he also defends singer Ignacio Copani, whom Lanata harshly criticized for his song about the Pfizer vaccine.
The scandal began on May 23, when in a media appearance Bullrich launched a complaint about the management of vaccines with Pfizer's covid.
Gregorio Dalbón, Alberto Fernández's lawyer, along with Ignacio Copani.
"Gines González García said that in order to sign a contract with Pfizer there had to be an
intermediary
, which is the same as AstraZeneca, Hugo Sigman. And Pfizer told him that it couldn't, that they had to be effective in time and in the way of production of the vaccine. González García's attitude was to try to have a return. The president was not unaware of that, "said Bullrich according to La Nación.
In addition, he said that
it was not a mistake.
"It is the attempt of a negotiation that was not closed. I have no doubts that Ginés González García
wanted a return
for that vaccine. That is criminal and the prosecutors of the Nation have to investigate it. If they call the people of Pfizer, they they are going to tell the truth and they are not going to lie like Santiago Cafiero lies to us, "asked the president of PRO.
After his statements, Alberto Fernández said that he would go to court to
denounce Bullrich
.
Mediation was a formality
Finally, on June 18, the
mediation hearing
between the former deputy and the President took place.
Both were represented by their lawyers, who spoke at the hearing: Néstor Balian and Dalbón, respectively.
Alberto Fernández sued Patricia Bullrich for 100 million pesos.
Photo Fernando of the Order
That date only lasted
15 minutes
.
Already at the beginning, Dalbón made it clear that he attended to comply with the legal formalities, but that he was
not seeking an agreement
with Bullrich.
In this way, he advanced in his intention to bring a
civil lawsuit for damages
to the former Minister of Security, since he considered that the accusations of alleged corruption represent a "great institutional gravity."
For Balian, on the other hand, Bullrich's words did not constitute an affront to the honor of the President.
Days later, Bullrich reiterated that "the one who has to give explanations is always the authority."
And he assured that, with the Pfizer case, "we are reaching the truth that the vaccines are not there because they did not want them to be."
"They accused me of much more serious things, of having made a person disappear. I never made a trial, because I think my responsibility was to get to the truth," added the head of the PRO.
After Bullrich's statements, Pfizer appeared in Congress and rejected the accusations about a possible attempt to negotiate from the ruling party.
The general manager of the firm in Argentina, Nicolás Vaquer, denied that the Argentine government had requested "improper payments or demands from intermediaries."
In any case, he reaffirmed that the Vaccine Law "is not compatible with contractual aspects" and that negotiations are continuing, without reaching an agreement so far.
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