Members of the Republican Party arrived at the Palacio de La Moneda on Monday to demand that the Minister of Social Development, Jeanette Vegathe list of political prisoners in Chile after her statements on a television program, where she was pressured to resign if she does not have that list.
This Sunday night, the Secretary of State pointed out in Zero tolerance from CNNChile that “there are political prisoners, without a doubt, and I can give examples: the boys who are currently in preventive detention since the (social) outbreak, who have even been in prison for two years, if they are not political prisoners, what are they? in practice they have not been prosecuted”.
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These words were questioned by different political sectors, one of them was the Republican Party, whose president, Red Edwardsindicated that “we have come to leave a letter to the President borik because we believe that the statements made by the Minister of Social Development yesterday are an attack against democracy”.
Along these lines, she pointed out that “they went to demand that she give us the list of those who are the alleged political prisoners that she is talking about, both from the outbreak of violence in 2019 and also those from the southern Macrozone.”
In addition, the senator stressed that the courts, prosecutors and police should be added to the discussion, since “supposedly they have been involved in taking detainees and prosecuting people for their ideas, and if the minister does not have that list, we ask her to resign.” .
Finally, he emphasized that “if there are political prisoners, you cannot throw the stone knowing the damage it causes and then hide your hand and back down. This was not a mistake, these are the same statements that we have seen from other ministries.”
