Deputy Escobar approached the podium where Zelaya was finishing the press conference, and then she refuted the official’s remarks on the budget. That was when the official argued with Escobar.
The Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, caused an altercation after giving a press conference on Wednesday night in the Assembly, where he came to call “adefesio” the changes that the deputies of the opposition made it to next year ‘s draft budget.
Zelaya claimed that to transfer money to mayors lawmakers are withdrawing about $ 15 million from a loan for the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19, and other resources for the acquisition of computers by students in 2021 and the works to reduce raids in various colonies and communities.
“We will not let the COVID-19 vaccine be taken out to give money to its mayors,” Zelaya charged.
“That we have taken the money from the COVID vaccine, lie !, the money for the purchase of COVID vaccine is complete and it is also non-transferable, they cannot use this money for the vaccine for anything other than to the vaccine, “Escobar said.
Prior to these statements, MP Escobar approached the podium where Zelaya was finishing the press conference and then she gave statements to journalists. Just then there was a crossover of words between the two.
Finance Minister and MP Margarita Escobar had an altercation when she approached the podium where he had given a press conference. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
“I have come several times asking to be summoned …” Zelaya told him when he saw MP Escobar approach. All of a sudden someone among the people who was present said “corrupt” to the official, which provoked his immediate reaction.
“Don’t call me corrupt, that I’m not a thief, maybe you are, but I am not,” Zelaya refused.
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“You don’t want the fuck, you don’t want the fuck?” Escobar Zelaya insisted, and he replied: “No, I asked him several times to summon me, but really if they want to approve his adefesio …” insisted the Minister of Finance.
Zelaya charged against the deputies for the changes they made to certain allocations in the 2021 budget. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
“You’re always called and he never comes, he doesn’t even come out of constraint and now he wants us to call him. I thought, when they told me you were coming you were carrying the affidavit and you’re not carrying it,” he told her. Brush.
“Oh Margarida, oh Margarida, well go ahead and approve what they want, really, take the funds to the computers, that’s what they want, do they want to take the crap out of Salvadoran people ?, take them off, thank you Margarita,” Zelaya refuted.
“This is the finance minister we have,” Escobar criticized when he saw Zelaya’s defiant attitude.
“Thank you Madam Deputy, thank you, I kindly asked you to defend the people, please I asked you,” the Minister of Finance claimed. “Good night, Mr. Minister, calm down,” Escobar insisted.
“We just heard a lot of lies, disrespect, exaggerations and the biggest disrespect is to you TV friend. He claims we don’t ask him to come, we always ask him to come, he doesn’t even come out of coercion,” Escobar questioned.
In the Finance Committee, Deputy Donato Vaquerano, of ARENA, clarified that the money that Zelaya says has been taken for vaccines is contemplated in another $ 50 million loan that is especially for Health. He noted that to reorient items have taken funds from another credit for the same amount of $ 50 million that went for 2020 budget reinforcement.
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