The Government Spokesperson Minister, Camila Vallejoinsisted that the call from an adviser to the former Minister of Social Development Jeanette Vega the leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), Hector Llaitul, “was not instructed or informed”. This, after Vega pointed out that her resignation -presented on August 25- was of a “political” nature.
“In my resignation there was a decision that was rather political on my part. We were a week away from the plebiscite in which we had fought – including myself – to change the Pinochet Constitution. It was the key moment. And this episode, which would have been irrelevant at any other time, it could become a political weapon against the government,” Vega said in a conversation with Third.
Regarding the statements of the former Secretary of State, Vallejo held center table of Channel 13 that “this resignation was accepted because there was a critical evaluation in the sense that the communication that she tried to manage with Héctor Llaitul was neither instructed nor informed when it was attempted.”
“It seems to me that beyond what she can say, it is extremely clear why the resignation was accepted and that is what the Government reported, stated publicly and also pointed out to her,” the government spokeswoman continued.
“It probably had an additional political consideration. For the Government, the most relevant thing was that the fact of this attempted conversation was not reported, it was not even instructed, “he added.
The call
The middle ex ante revealed at the end of August that Tania Santis, adviser to former Minister Vega -who assumed the interministerial coordination of the South Macrozone in April-, made a call to Llaitul on May 11. As can be seen in the transcript of the call, the objective was for the CAM leader to speak with Vega.
“She (Minister Vega) asked me (to see) the possibility of contacting you and seeing the possibility of being able to have a conversation with you right now, by phone,” Santis told Llaitul.
The CAM leader asked Santis where he got his number. Later, he said to talk to him on Whatsapp.
That May 11, the middle Werken News broadcast an interview with Llaitul, in which he criticized the “intermediate state”, a measure considered by the Government of the President Gabriel Boric to avoid the State of Exception in the provinces of Biobío and Arauco, in the Biobío region, and throughout La Araucanía.
