Opposition condemns Moroni mayor for drug campaign and seeks to challenge him
Macrista MP Waldo Wolff and opposition advisers went to court for Lucas Gis’s “harm reduction” policy; Together for Change confirms approval of campaign design, but not brochure content
The opposition was enrolled With for changesForward against the Mayor of Moroni, Lucas Guy (Frente de Todos), following the launch of the Drug Prevention Campaign, which distributed leaflets identifying “minor” intake of substances such as cocaine and pills. Deputies and city councils have filed criminal complaints, while mayors will try to question the communal director in the deliberative council. Opposition groups in the district said they supported the “harm reduction” project among drug users, but not the content of the distribution materials.
National MP Waldo Wolfe Presented Complaint against the mayor in the federal jurisdiction over the public distribution of drug use and the commission of a crime. Advisers to Together for Change in Moron have also taken the matter to federal courts.
Wolfe appeared in court with his “character of a nation’s deputy” to “condemn the serious actions” that “would have been committed by the mayor of Moroni Municipality, Lucas Hernan Gis and other municipal officials.” Your complaint will be investigated by a federal prosecutor Ramiro Gonzalez.
The Makrista MP stressed that “through various media outlets, Moroni administration officials acknowledge the authorship of the campaign and do not regret its content or advertising the use of substances prohibited by law. ,7 23,737. In the complaint, he stressed that “the campaign led by Mayor Gia is not aimed at preventing drug use, but at publicizing their use.”
Nine councilors from Moroni’s “Together for Change” bloc have filed a lawsuit in federal district court. In the presentation to which he agreed ᲔᲠᲘCouncil members noted: “Reducing losses is presented as a strategy that emerged in England in the late 1980s in response to the exponential growth of heroin use. “It turned out that the traditional approach to the subject was not enough and they decided to give it a new approach by reducing the harm, because it is recognized that abstinence is a 100% difficult goal to achieve.”
“Despite the above, it is clear that the decisions made by Moroni Municipality officials and expressed in the free delivery brochures are not far from reducing the harm to those who consume, but are clearly trying to start consuming hard and soft drugs for them. “Children, young people and teenagers who have not met the municipal advertisement before,” – the governors told Francis Monet Ruiz, Maria Delia Travers, Claudio Lighthouse, John Nardo, Romina Fusco, Leandro Ugartemendia, Analia Zapula, Claudia Quintana ი Gaston Perez.
In the complaint, they asked the municipality to report on drug-related projects, submit all addiction documentation provided under the La Minga Festival, and detail the list of affected staff. Meeting and if there was an age restriction on entry. In addition, consultations were requested with the Mayor of Justice if the drug-using population is surveyed and the world of followers of municipal social networks is clarified in detail.
Another requested piece of evidence relates to the social network Instagram, which was asked to “indicate, if possible, how impressed the” story “with which the Moroni municipality distributed the brochures submitted for questioning” and if these publications “use a promotional sample. ”
The district governors, led by Guy since 2019 (he was already mayor from 2009 to 2015) will try to challenge the community head to the deliberative council.. They have already submitted a request for an extraordinary session to be convened next Tuesday. This should involve the chairman of the board, who is responsible for everyone at the front. Opponents at the session will need 13 votes out of 24 members of the City Council to move the project forward. The district opposition is grouped into nine councilors in the “Together for Change” bloc, two in the radical chair and two others, each with a monoblock.
On Moronen’s opposition, they confirmed that they had approved a “loss reduction” campaign in the deliberative council last year, which “handed over the tool to the executive”, but not the brochure that was distributed., Which, among other points, read: “Cocaine / Pills: Go slowly. It takes some time to see how your body responds. ”
“this [por el folleto cuestionado] Does not follow from the ordinance [que se aprobó por unanimidad]. What was done over the weekend has nothing to do with harm reduction, which involves working on a specific group, assessing risks and a range of measures. There must have been a social-sanitary device, which it was not. There were neither doctors nor nurses. There were children there. “This is not at all what the ordinance says about protecting care policies,” said Francisco Monet Ruiz, president of the Council for a Change bloc. ᲔᲠᲘ.
Monet Ruiz noted that there were “several” questions to the former mayor, Taliafero, and that “the ruling party must agree to interrogate Gis.”
Source: La Nacion
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