Candidate shifts blame for outcry after attack on journalist
Yanibel Ábrego, president of the National Assembly, whose supporters in a bid to be re-elected as deputy for Capira recently attacked a journalist who tried to film her distribution of food packets to potential voters. blames the “economic power” of the country for attacking her in an “excessive manner” while ignoring the support that she has among the population she claims to represent.
On the Nex TV, she said “Definitely you all know that apart from being the candidate for deputy of 8-2 I am the president of the [National] Assembly, and I am the general secretary of a party [ Cambio Democrático]. The truth is that economic power does not forgive a woman like me, of humble background, have the position that they have, they attack me in an excessive way without knowing the support that I have in my circuit,
Her comment came after several sectors of the country questioned her for promoting clientelistic practices in her its circuit to win votes.
La Prensa reports that residents from different towns of Capira confirmed this media that Ábrego gives away bags of food and construction materials, among other things, with the purpose of gaining political support and being re-elected for the third time. On Sunday, March 17 a group of her is supporters assaulted a journalist Mauricio Valenzuela, at a time when documenting a meeting where supposedly would be distributed bags of food would be distributed, The event occurred in Cirí de Los Sotos, in the mountainous area of the circuit.
