To meet with the Minister of the Interior and Public Security and the head of Justice and Human Rights, Carolina Tohá and Marcela Ríos, respectively, the Government’s candidate to head the National Prosecutor’s Office, Ángel Valencia, came to La Moneda, in the antechamber of the vote in the Senate that —if favorable— will ratify his nomination as head of the Public Ministry. This, in the midst of criticism from some senators who have already expressed their rejection of the Executive’s letter.
As stated Thirdthe meeting lasted 40 minutes and Valencia, like José Morales and Marta Herrera —previously ruled out by the Senate— must then appear before the Senate Constitution Committee to present their proposals to head the entity that prosecutes crimes for the next eight years.
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The lawyer’s presentation before the Upper House will take place next Monday, January 9 and, to give an account of the Executive’s background to lean towards Valencia, Minister Ríos will also attend the appointment, with the aim of defending her nomination.
It is worth mentioning that pro-government and opposition senators have begun to express their discomfort at the surprise nomination of Ángel Valencia as National Prosecutor, where some question his name, the defenses he has assumed of defendants in controversial cases, and his links with the political world, while others question the process through which he was chosen.
In a few hours, as anticipated The counter, the votes that were thought assured, suddenly begin to falter. This, in the midst of versions that speak of underhanded negotiations between the Government and opposition senators to install Valencia, even though he was never the La Moneda candidate. In this past, various sources in Congress note that the President’s somersault to appoint him left the ministers Marcela Ríos and Ana Lya Uriarte without a floor to, now, go out to tie the votes in favor of the external lawyer to the Prosecutor’s Office.
