The Parlasur met this Tuesday to hear the discharge of one of its members, Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón, whom the Kirchnerist bench seeks to expel from this Mercosur body.
Who was judicial advisor to former president Mauricio Macri is located in Montevideo, while Judge María Romilda Servini maintains a extradition request to Argentina, where he accuses him of alleged operations to harm the Indalo Group of the Kirchner businessman Cristobal López.
Rodriguez Simon reject all accusations and made a request for refuge in Uruguay -where he arrived through the land border of Entre Ríos- which is analyzed by the Justice of that country.
The Committee on Budget and Internal Affairs of the Mercosur Parliament met virtually this Tuesday, to hear his defense on the procedure for interrupting his mandate that promoted the Kirchner parliamentarian Oscar Laborde, and could count on the support of the Broad Front, today in the political opposition in Uruguay.
According to the Parlamentomercosur site, Rodríguez Simón told why he requested refuge in Uruguay: “(I did it) based on well-founded fears that due to my political activities I will be deprived of my liberty without due process “.
And he remarked that he suffered “an intense smear campaign“by his opponents.
“This ban request would be a form of political persecution”, argument.
In August, the Uruguayan Commission for Refugees (CORE) issued a report – non-binding and that depends on the Foreign Ministry of that country – that was negative.
Now it is the Justice of that country that must solve whether or not you recognize your refugee status. It will do so by evaluating that CORE report and other elements.
Meanwhile, it maintains the protection of refugee claimant. But the parliamentarians of the Kirchnerist caucus want to kick him out of the body, accusing him of being a “fugitive” and of allegedly violating “ethical” norms.
In this Tuesday’s meeting, Rodríguez Simón presented several reports favorable to his position. They were prepared by jurists in the region.
In addition, he reinforced the concept that this is a political persecution, when he spoke about all the steps that were followed to expose his actions in the television media and in the written press.
In his presentation, his lawyer explained that “it is very difficult to understand where the connection is between the accusation of lack of decorum and the facts of which he is accused.”
The parliamentarian reiterated his position regarding the fact that your refugee claim does not constitute improper conduct.
The Argentine parliamentarians Hermán Olivero, Jorge Vanossi, Carlos López, Oscar Laborde, Humberto Benedetto, Julio René Sotelo, Nancy D’Auria, Elena Corregido, Eduardo Nelson Nicoletti, Carlos Gleadell, Jorge Cejas, Walter Nostrala, Cecilia Britto and Gastón Harispe were present. ; the Brazilian Arlindo Chinaglia; the Paraguayans Blanca Lila Mignarro, Rubén Penayo and Edith Benítez, and the President of the Commission, Conrado Rodríguez, participated for Uruguay.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/from-montevideo-the-former-advisor-of-the-macrismo-pepin-rodriguez-simon-defended-himself-in-the-parlasur/
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