08/27/2021 8:53 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/27/2021 9:01 AM
After being charged, President Alberto Fernández affirmed this Friday that the birthday celebration of Fabiola Yañez at the Quinta de Olivos in full quarantine
"was an act of recklessness and negligence"
, but insisted that there was no crime.
The president sought to relativize the accusation, noting that "the accusation is to make known to someone who was denounced by another so that one can exercise their defense", and emphasized: "It was not a fraudulent maneuver, it was an act of recklessness and of negligence ".
"The first thing I would like you to analyze is the existence of a crime; Judge Sebastián Casanello is a good judge and I hope he can analyze it legally ... the issue is very clear, but even so, what I want is for Argentines to know that This did not happen to me next door: it hurt me, it worried me and I feel that I made a mistake, as a result of the maelstrom in which I lived, "he emphasized.
And he added, in dialogue with Radio 10: "I hope that Justice will evaluate my proposal, which I think is solid. The rest are words that are written in the newspapers."
The federal prosecutor Ramiro González accused the President, the first lady Fabiola Yáñez and the other guests at the birthday celebration on July 14, 2020, on Thursday, for having breached the rules that prohibited holding meetings in full quarantine.
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