The bench of deputies of the National Party spoke this Tuesday about the possibility of promoting an investigative commission into the management of the TOadministration of State Health Services (ASSE) as a way to go on the attack and defend the previous administration, according to white sources told The Observer.
The matter was handled with reserve among the nationalist legislators because they intend to gain control of the Frente Amplio on this issue since the ruling party also wants to promote an investigative commission but focused on the management of Leonardo Cipriani (2020-2024). The whites want the researcher to cover the period since 2015 until today to have points of comparison with what the previous administration did.
The whites already promoted – and approved – an investigative commission into the management of ASSE in 2017 – which worked for a year – and which at that time detected a series of irregularities. In the midst of its operation, the then president Tabaré Vázquez decided to change the entire leadership of the organization after a case of nepotism was detected in the board of directors but there were also dismissals of hospital directors in the interior of the country.
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The objective of this movement of the whites is to take the initiative and move the focus Since in addition to handling the possibility of an investigator in Parliament, the current board decided to file a criminal complaint against the previous administration headed by Leonardo Cipriani for a series of irregularities detected in an administrative investigation. The whites even consider the possibility of presenting the motion this Wednesday.
As reported The Observerthe decision to present the complaint was made unanimously in the session on Thursday the 23rd and responds to irregularities in the hiring of the ITHG transfer company, agreements with Casmu and the Catholic Circle for the admission of patients to CTI and moderate care, and the management of the Treinta y Tres Hospital.
The previous board responded to the complaint with a statement in which they assured that it was a “political attack” and questioned the “internal leak of information” that should be confidential.
ASSE management has been in the spotlight for a long time. The complaint that the board now decided to present is preceded by several questions that the Frente Amplio made while in the opposition while as soon as the current government took office, a controversy broke out because the president of the organization, Álvaro Danza, worked at the same time in the private and public sectors. Finally, Danza left his tasks in the private sector.
