After the participant Big Brother (Telephone) Walter Santiago, better known as “Alpha”declared that the president of the nation Alberto Fernandez “he bribed him a lot of times,” and that the presidential spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerutiwent out to deny the accusation in a tweet, the driver Jorge Rial, also tweeted about the matter: “I still can’t get over my amazement. The president goes out to deny a television program? #GH2022 what is a gallery of smoke sellers wanting to be famous at any cost? I said that there are no problems in the country…”.
Immediately criticism rained down on him and there was no shortage of tweeters who reproached Rial for his well-known affinity with the government. The hashtag “TUGO” (“Your government”) was a trending topic, and one of the catchphrases with which critics questioned Rial.
I still do not leave my astonishment. The president goes out to deny a television program? A #GH2022 what is a gallery of sellouts wanting to be famous at any cost? I said that in the country there are no problems…
— JORGE RIAL (@rialjorge) October 20, 2022
The controversy had its origin in the sayings of Alfa, who is dedicated to the purchase, sale and repair of collector cars. “I have known him for 35 years. Alberto Fernández bribed me a lot of times. I know Alberto Fernández very well”, said the participant of Big Brother in conversation with Romina Uhrigformer national deputy for the front of all between 2019 and 2021 and now a Big Brother contestant.
After the sayings Gabriela Ceruti He launched his tweet, where he assured that Alberto Fernández “has no information about this person nor does he remember having met her.” He also stressed that the president “was never involved in acts of corruption” and that “he has made transparency a central purpose of his management in public office.” “We cannot naturalize that someone expresses himself lightly in such a way that he only seeks to defame and discredit him,” said Cerruti, who requested both phoneas well as the production of Big Brother and to Alfa himself, “that they retract and cease this aggravating attitude.”
The President is concerned, among many other issues, about decency in the exercise of public office.
We already know that you don’t. We saw you destroy the province. https://t.co/okcQTI0pAm– Gabriela Cerruti (@gabicerru) October 20, 2022
In the last hours, the lawyer Gregorio Dalbonwho defended both Alberto Fernandez and the vice president on several occasions Cristina Kirchnerassured that the first national president gave him instructions to initiate legal actions against Alfa.
“Notwithstanding what was said by the presidential spokesperson and in case the insult to the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, persists, he instructed me to initiate civil actions for damages against his honor. We hope to avoid unnecessary judicial waste with the retraction, “Dalbón reported on his Twitter account, minutes before having asked Telefe for a retraction within” 48 hours “, in another tweet.
Notwithstanding what was said by the presidential spokesperson and in case the insult to the President of the Nation persists, @alferdez instructed me to initiate civil actions for damage against his honor.
We hope to avoid unnecessary judicial waste with the retraction. https://t.co/YtQHEeMPiy– Gregorio Dalbon (@Gregoriodalbon) October 20, 2022
The driver of Big Brother, Santiago Del Moro, disclaimed responsibilities in the cycle for Alpha’s statements. He specified that what the participants say inside the house “is up to them.” “In fact, each participant before entering the house of Big Brother here and in the world, signs a document that is responsible for the things he says and for the people he names,” said Del Moro at the end of the first Nomination Gala.
Criticism of Rial
In addition to the fact that the hashtag “Tugo” was a trend, the tweeters attacked Rial, accusing him of complaining about the attitudes of a government that he had supported and of criticizing a program that he himself had hosted in other editions.
“Tugo @rialjorge take charge of your vote,” said a tweeter. “What that gallery of smoke sellers fed you!!! Jorgito in life you have to be grateful!!! where would you be without your role in most of the GH? ”, launched a tweeter.
They even responded with a screenshot of a tweet from Rial, where he states that Big Brother is a program “that he loves a lot and that gave him a lot.” “I will see it as a spectator with the same joy with which I drove it,” Rial wrote in the October 17 tweet.
today starts #Big Brother. A program that I love very much and it gave me a lot. It’s THE reality show. I will see it as a spectator with the same joy as when I was driving it. betting that @SANTIAGODELMORO he is going to break it and make another historic season. I hug all the workers of @telefe pic.twitter.com/AuJzGzafQs
— JORGE RIAL (@rialjorge) October 17, 2022