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The decision adopted by the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, who requested a 42-day extension that he requested to deliver the emails to the Prosecutor’s Office, within the framework of the investigation they carry out for deaths from COVID-19.
According to the PRO senator, Alejandro Navarro, this decision “is a political operation to protect Mañalich and also Piñera. 42 days is not only excessive, it is obstruction of justice.”
“Clearly the period of emails that he indicates for national security, is limited and the information must be available. The only objective of Minister Paris is to avoid that when Mañalich declares in the process, these emails are not disclosed,” he argued.
“That is to say, that the Prosecutor has fewer instruments to be able to question Mañalich.” I would ask the lawyers Zaliasnik and Donoso to stop obstructing, to stop the bullying they have exercised and to allow the Prosecutor’s Office to do its job, “he said.
Therefore, Navarro announced that they will appeal the request, since “the terms must be those requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, in a limited and dynamic manner.”
“What is required here is transparency and, for the good of Chile, we want to know how many infected, how many deaths there were, and how was the handling of the pandemic in its first months. That will allow us to make decisions that protect the lives of Chileans, “he said.
“Provocation to justice”
PS deputy Juan Luis Castro also criticized this decision, assuring that it is “a true provocation to justice and an act of obstruction.”
In Castro’s eyes, “clearly there is an act not only delaying, but there is an act of resistance and rebellion against the action of justice.” “It has never been seen that a ministry and a government try to guide and measure the information that the Supreme Court orders it to deliver to the Ministry of Health in three days,” said the legislator.
“How much protection for La Moneda is there behind those emails? How was the crisis between two people handled between April and June? What are the concealments and manipulations behind the figures that we know today? “Asked Deputy Castro, adding that” they are all the questions behind these emails that they refuse to deliver crudely and scandalously.
“In my view, the Public Ministry must act drastically and demand the total delivery of the emails. Enough of continuing to hide, perhaps, the main piece of all this scandal, which is the exchange of emails from Piñera with Mañalich! ”, He closed.
“Cat closed”
His party partner, Leonardo Soto (PS) said that this decision by Paris is a “comedy” that seems to “have a cat locked up.” “All of Chile suspects that the government is explicitly hiding relevant information of public interest,” he declared .
“It is absolutely unacceptable and unjustified that Minister Paris denies information to the courts and does so in a rather embarrassing way, because two months ago he said that he could not deliver the emails because there was information that had to do directly with national security and now , that a procedure was established to separate that, it says ‘I have no idea where it is and give me two months to find it,’ “criticized the legislator.
In the opinion of the parliamentarian, “Minister Paris is playing with fire, is putting himself on the brink of the crime of contempt and obstruction of justice, and is undoubtedly hindering the investigation of the Public Ministry and the courts. You are doing your government a disservice with these behaviors that have no basis or justification ”.
According to Soto, “we do not know if (this concealment) has to do with the data or manipulation of the deceased or sick or with the economic data in the acquisition of ventilators. But the only reasonable explanation for the conduct of Minister Enrique Paris is – without a doubt – that there is a concealment of information of great public interest ”.
Along these lines, the parliamentarian criticized that “Minister Paris not only hides emails to justice, nor does he respond to Congress. Of 13 official letters sent by the investigative commission for his management in the COVID-19 pandemic, they only responded to 3. The concealment of information about the pandemic is an institutional policy.
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