Leo Rubín: "Itaipu is a national cause" | The old c …

"Itaipu is a very sensitive issue for the Paraguayan people, a national cause," said Leo Rubin during a dialogue with the A New Adventure program of AM 750. The former candidate for the vice presidency of the Front Guasú spoke about the scandal of the secret agreement between the government of Colorado and Brazil about the hydroelectric dam.

Rubin pointed to the great support of President Jair Bolsonaro to his peer, Mario Abdo Benítez, after taking cognizance of the opposition's demand for political trial. "His role is sad, Bolsonaro gave Abdo a huge hand to cancel this treaty today," he said.

"This secret deal signed in May cost Paraguay $ 300 million," the journalist said, citing the five resignations of officials and the recent leak of documents, involving Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez, who was "trying to sell him". of energy "to a private company in Brazil linked to Bolsonaro". This was an important rationale for reviving the political trial, which represented at least "mismanagement of public administration," Rubin said.

The request for a trial was filed Wednesday, following an agreement reached between the Front Guasú and other parties of the Paraguayan opposition. There were enough votes to start. Even former president Horacio Cartes, belonging to a ruling party faction in Colorado, has joined the demand. But everything changed after the cancellation of the agreement. "The dog is dead, the anger is over," said Rubin. "They will not accompany the request for trial because they would have no justification," he added, also confirming that the process would continue, even if they had not no more votes. "Whatever it is, Abdo is still in a very complicated situation," said the leftist leader.

Rubin, who shares the political space with the sacked president Fernando Lugo, has marked significant divergences from the treaty signed between the former president and Lula da Silva in 2009. "Almost the same day that the president of the country," he said. secret agreement was known, the treaty lasted 10 years. , totally opposed, for which Paraguay has benefited from 360 million dollars, "he concluded.