Appointed to the Comptroller’s Office asks lawmakers not to take into account his tweets and posts on Facebook

Puerto Rico’s designated controller, Kermit Lucena Zabala, this Sunday defended his expressions on social networks, some of them racist or with sexual vocabulary, indicating that he made them a ‘private citizen’ and asked lawmakers who will be responsible for his evaluation that do not take into account.

“These statements on Twitter and Facebook were made in the context of a private citizen. I am not a government official at the time. I am conservative and when I see things unrelated to my thinking, I wrote and retweeted them as a private individual “Lucena Zabala said in a phone interview with The new day.

Asked if his comments on social networks could disqualify him from the position taken by both the Senate according to the House of Representatives, Lucena Zabala, asked to see them within the framework in which he had created them.

“I hope they don’t take that position, because it is a conservative position. Of course I have to tell you – two weeks ago – that I was not in this process. I came to meet the governorWanda Vazquez Garced) Last Monday. It was when she told me I was one of the possible candidates (for the position). Things change as a civil servant. I already represent the office. It’s something else. He is not a private official “, he claimed.

“I would ask the legislators to see it in that context, which are expressions of a citizen in their daily life. I never mean to make anyone look bad. It is my expression in certain issues of the American nation and of our country, ”he added.

Minutes after Lucena Zabala was appointed by the governor as the controller of Puerto Rico, the tweets and messages he posted on his social networks began to be made public.

In one, Lucena Zabala joins those who criticize the governor’s decision to maintain total confinement amid the pandemic while “lawmakers and officials continue to rally.”

In another he retweets a comment in English that says “why can’t you find a black man when you need one?” This particular tweet was shared by popular lawmaker, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández, who attacked Lucena.

Another message from Lucena Zabala is under the term ‘Sexflix’.

“That was because Netflix released a series about girls who were not prostitutes, but minors who did a series of dances and things that were criticized by many people,” the designated person explained to this medium.