PM Briceño Calls Michael Peyrefitte a ‘Fool’

John Briceño

Briceño did not mince any words in responding to Senator Peyrefitte’s comments. He called Peyrefitte a “fool” for not realizing the reality in the country.

Hipolito Novelo

“The chairman of the U.D.P. this morning, Michael Peyrefitte, said that your administration inherited a healthy economy and that you were warned about what you are supposed to deal with.”

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I don’t usually like to call names to people, but he is a fool to say something like that. Everybody can tell you that we are suffering, that we are going through a difficult time. His former prime minister pointed out in a lengthy interview on one of his press conferences saying that he weeps for the government to come. So how can the chairman of the U.D.P. say something so stupid, so ludicrous that we have a healthy economy? Doesn’t he walks, well I don’t think he can walk the street. If he would only look around and see how people are living he would understand that there is a financial crisis, there is an economic crisis, that people are suffering. Even the representative of Albert on the House on Friday said that she was visiting the people of her constituency and saying that things are really, really bad. So what planet is this man living in? What, he wants so much attention that he will say things like that because he is really making a fool of himself and I really don’t like talking about people like that. But how dare him say something like that. How dare him?”