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During this day, President Sebastián Piñera referred to the recent rejection of the request for removal to the prosecutor Marcelo Carrasco – a replacement sent to the national prosecutor by the President’s lawyers; the former Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich; and the two undersecretaries of said portfolio—, where it was requested that the change of said persecutor who investigates them for an alleged negligent and serious act in the current context of pandemic and health crisis.
The foregoing, within the framework of a complaint that was presented by the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue (PC), for the death of 62 residents of said commune in the middle of the pandemic.
In the middle of a visit to the works of the extension of Metro Line 3 to Quilicura, the president pointed out that “The Government respects the autonomy of other institutions, starting with the other powers of the State, the Legislative Power and the Judicial Power, and of course also the autonomy and independence of the Prosecutor’s Office.”
“Therefore, our government always collaborates with the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, and of course we are willing to collaborate, and as mentioned by the Minister of Health, always also protecting the privacy and sensitive information of all our compatriots,” he said.
His sayings are generated after this Tuesday the PDI, together with the Prosecutor’s Office, carried out inquiries at the Ministry of Health, where they arrived to seize information that could be useful for this cause.
The one who also referred to this issue was the government spokesman, Jaime Bellolio, at a press point in La Moneda.
“The Government on this matter has been very clear and has been very transparent. In fact, you are constantly aware of the data that exists regarding COVID. It was Minister Mañalich himself who commissioned a public audit —which is already known today— from the Office of the Comptroller of the Republic on the figures, “he said.
Added that “What the defense has done is to use its legal power to, for example, say that the Prosecutor could be changed since there were doubts about his objectivity or about the request for information that had been made, in which it was not accessed because it could compromise private information that the Minsal has an obligation to protect, especially that which has to do with sensitive information given the Law of Rights and Duties of patients ”.
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