This Monday from the Government confirmed the resignation of the mayor of the Magallanes region, José Fernández Dübrock, amid a sustained increase in cases in the region.
According to the information provided by health authorities, Magallanes concentrates 70% of the total local cases of COVID -since the pandemic began- between August 24 and September 20.
Fernández’s departure would have been generated in that context. The Government indicated that this “September 21, the mayor of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, José Fernández Dübrock, submitted his resignation from the position he had been holding since February 13, 2019”.
They also add that President Sebastián Piñera “accepted the resignation of the former authority and decided to appoint as the new mayor Jennifer Rojas García “.
“The new regional authority, which will take office on September 22, 2020, is a social worker from the University of Magallanes, has a diploma in Human Resources Management and Direction from the Mariano Egaña University and also a postgraduate degree in Social Mediation of Family Conflicts of the University of Chile ”, they detail.
They add that Rojas served between 2012 and 2015 as regional director of Senda in Magallanes and prior to said appointment She was exercising the position of regional public security coordinator for the region.
