PRD presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia says that there are corrupt people in the current administration, and he announced that were he to win the presidency in 2012, he would prosecute them, a warning that he also directed towards the ranks of the military.
He told Diario Libre: “I am not talking about any specific case, if there is a corruption problem in the country, we have to face up to it, and I am willing to face it, no matter who it is”, said the politician when he was interviewed at the Ministry of Foreign Relations, before taking part in the Third Forum on Greenhouses.
In the particular case of Senator Felix Bautista, Mejia said that he would like him to be the PLD candidate so that “he (Mejia) could win with a greater plurality”, on the understanding that the legislator has the facility” of appropriating what is not his”, but he did not go into details. Nevertheless, upon being asked about the questioning of Euclides Gutierrez Felix, the Superintendent of Insurance on grounds for corruption charges, the former President was categorical in saying that he would not be prosecuted in his administration since he considered Gutierrez to be his “buddy”.