Uribe should bring his complaints to court: Vargas Lleras

[Judi Lynn]

Uribe should bring his complaints to court: Vargas Lleras
Thursday, 23 June 2011 15:24
Marguerite Cawley

Colombia's interior minister has furthered his response to ex-President Alvaro Uribe's accusatory Twitter remarks, urging the former head of state to bring his complaints to court.

"If the (ex) president has a complaint to make, it is important that he brings it before the authorities," said Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras, in a second response to Uribe's Twitter accusations, which he had already denied once.

Lleras added that "(he) can ask whichever Supreme Court judge" whether there have been any charges brought against him.

On Wednesday, Uribe accused the minister of being influenced by other political officials in his election of a Supreme Court judge and questioned alleged links between the minister and paramilitary groups, after Lleras accused the former president's administration of using its political power to secure its officials senior positions in the country's private sector.

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