On the Saturday show “Mirtha’s night”, Hugo Alconada Mon He said that he began to be “persecuted and spied on” when he investigated for his articles published in the newspaper La Nación, what was the participation in bribes of the public works businessman Angelo Calcaterra, cousin of Mauricio Macri. “In the same days in which we published that, they ordered to start following me,” said the journalist in the “mesaza.”
Y Elisa Carrio seconded it. He declared that in his years as a politician he received a lot of persecution, but “never as part of sectors of his own government”, taking off Mauricio Macri. Prero added that neither she nor the Civic Coalition that she leads validated the appointments of Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani at the AFI.
President Alberto Fernández called to pay attention to the complaints and turn them into a judicial investigation (Macri was previously dismissed, which was the PRO’s chorus response to similar complaints by the UCR deputy Facundo Manes), and presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Ceruti joined through a tweet.
With an excerpt from the last program of Mirtha Legrandin which the journalist Hugo Alconada Mon and the leader of the Civic Coalition Elisa Carrió denounced threats, he wrote: “The denunciations of @halconada Y @elisacarrio about the persecution and threats they suffered during the government of @mauriciomacri they are as serious as we have never seen in a democracy”
The complaints of @halconada Y @elisacarrio about the persecution and threats they suffered during the government of @mauriciomacri they are as serious as we have never seen in a democracy.pic.twitter.com/vj2ITxF4W3
– Gabriela Cerruti (@gabicerru) October 16, 2022
The comments of Alconada Mon and Carrió support the criticized position of maneswho said in an interview with Luis Majul on LN+, that “there was evidence that people even from his government were spied on,” alluding to Macri.
“Any demonstration that departs from that course, no matter where it comes from, harms the hope that we have been building from Together for Change,” said the statement that the national committee of the UCR released about the sayings of Manes.
But the leadership of the UCR was not the only sector of Together for Change to question Manes’s statements. One of those who first came out to respond to Manes was the former Secretary of Culture during the government of Mauricio Macri, Paul Avelluto, who tweeted on that occasion “hopefully the radical friends realize in time the irrelevance of Manes”. Deputy Fernando Iglesias also expressed himself on the subject, describing Manes as “unacceptable.”
Hopefully our radical friends realize in time the irrelevance of Manes.
– Pablo Avelluto (@pabloavelluto) October 3, 2022
The words of Alconada Mon, a prestigious journalist for his investigations, in contrast, were only raised by referents of the ruling party but silenced the macristra environment.
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