Jorge Marticaren on Dina Baluarte’s operation: “We are entering a field where everything is politicized”

Jorge Marticarena member of the Supervisory Commission of the Congress of the Republic, noted that there are pressing issues in the regions of the country, and that attention should not be focused only on President Dina Baluarte and questions about her supposed resignation. subject to operational intervention in 2023, in connection with which a preliminary investigation was conducted by the Prosecutor General’s Office.

“Almost all this week, since the beginning Supervisory commission“I understand that there are issues that interest the country, such as this case, but we cannot leave aside other issues that are happening in the regions and about which the congressmen themselves spoke,” he said in the program. Fire test with RPP.

A lawmaker from the Alliance for Progress (APP) argued that “we can’t spend all sessions talking about one issue” when there are others “that really concern the public directly.”

“Let it be investigated (to In Bolwart), the fact is that all calls are on the same topic, but we cannot give them all the time,” he noted.

“I trust the judicial system more”

MarticarenIn addition, he considered that Supervisory commission It does not have enough weight to investigate – if the plenary session gives it such powers – the surgical intervention that the head of state would undergo between June and July 2023.

“The prosecutor’s office is investigating the president’s case. What happened when we were invited (to the commission) on topics that are also of interest to the country (…) It is not of such a nature to force us to speak or point out, we saw it with other guests who remained silent and the question “That’s all,” he said he

“It doesn’t have, let’s say, the weight that should be given to behavior, at this point we’re entering a field where everything is politicized, I trust more Judiciary despite the criticism,” he added.

In this sense, he stated that “in many aspects” he does not trust Congress of the Republic nor in Supervisory commission of which he is a member, ensuring that many parliamentarians “take care of themselves” when making decisions in the run-up to the 2026 general election, which he said is to avoid getting involved “in issues that cause greater public disapproval”. .

“I see that some really have very clear aspirations to be candidates for deputies or senators again,” he concluded.