Javier Milei harshly questioned
Gerardo Morales
tonight
at the opening of ordinary sessions in Congress.
The President did not mention the former governor of Jujuy by name or surname, but he alluded to his figure when making one of the many criticisms that he made of the political leadership throughout his presentation.
"(Argentina's is) a system that can only generate poor people and at their expense produces a privileged caste that
lives as if they were monarchs, that reaches obscene absurdities of impunity
," noted the president from his lectern specially prepared in the Chamber of Deputies. Deputies.
And he added: "For example this week when we learned that a former governor was put behind bars without due process for the crime of speaking ill of the crown in a private chat."
The phrase was followed by loud applause.
"In case you couldn't hear the applause,
it offends the silence of those who call themselves Republicans
," Milei said immediately afterwards, awakening a new ovation from his followers.
Last Monday, Justice ordered the release of Nahuel Morandini and Roque Villegas, who spent more than 50 days imprisoned in Jujuy for having published ironic tweets and photos on social networks that allude to an alleged infidelity of the radical Morales' wife.
The cessation of preventive detention did not separate the accused from the case, in which they are accused of the crimes of identity suppression to the detriment of a minor and psychological violence in the context of gender violence.
Both would be brought to trial in a case being carried out by Judge Pablo Pullen Llermanos.
The resolution represented a turn in the case, which began on January 4 when Tulia Snopek, partner of the former provincial president, filed a complaint.
The complaints sought to keep both of them in prison and requested the arrest of a third defendant.
Previously, Milei had expressed his "concern" about the arrests, while his spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, highlighted in a press conference the need for individual freedoms to be respected in the northern province.