The Minister of the Interior, Carlos Blackattended this Thursday the Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputiesconvened by the opposition to know details about the progress of the National Security Plan carried out by the Yamandú Orsi government.
But also had a clash with the oppositionto which He did not allude directly but referred in his initial interventionwhen He criticized “demagoguery with public security” and considering it as “political loot”as recorded in the shorthand version accessed The Observer.
“I say it from the Ministry of the Interior, I say it from the most political of ministries, as they say. It is necessary to emphasize that with public safety, with the economy and with the health of the people, electoral spoils or five-year electoral campaigns should not be carried out, but we must contribute ideas, consensus, agreements and solutions among everyone, because insecurity has no political color,” the minister said in the commission.
His approach is linked to the criticisms of his management that have been formulated by different opposition leadersmotivated more recently by the changes made in the police leadershipwhich led some to declare that The problem was not the police, but “the minister.”
The Black Allusion motivated the response of several opposition legislatorsamong them Pablo Abdala (National Party) and Gabriel Gurmendez (Colorado Party).
Thus, when the minister’s intervention ended, Abdala, former Undersecretary of the Interior during the Lacalle Pou government, took up Negro’s allusion and expressed: “I get the impression that the ministerwith whom we have maintained a respectful relationship since March 1, 2025, beyond differences, has crossed the Rubicon. “He has crossed a limit that I did not think he would cross.”
Abdala said he was referring to Negro’s suggestion that the opposition is motivated by “nothing short of destabilizing ends.”
“He spoke of electoral loot, he reiterated it today, of political loot, that by our actions, our comments and our criticisms we are calling into question the rule of law itself, that we are generating alarm in the population,” criticized the white leader, who rejected that reading.
Gurméndez expressed himself along a similar line in the session. When taking the floor, the Colorado man maintained that The rule of law cannot be weakened by the fact that the opposition “fulfills the role” assigned to it by citizens. “Which is the exercise of the rights to control and avoid abuse of power, deviation or the ability to carry out adequate management,” he argued.
Gurméndez considered that Negro was confusing criticism of his management with damage to “institutionality.”
“I think there is confusion there; the institution is confused with the person. Mr. Abdala used a Gallicism: déjà vu. I may use another one: l’état, c’est moi. The Minister is held in very high esteem to think that when the opposition criticizes his management, they are criticizing the institutions or the Ministry.. We are criticizing the minister’s management,” said the legislator.
