The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrés Allamand, called on the Foreign Ministry staff not to get involved in electoral activities, as a result of the participation of the Chilean ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Issa Kort, with the presidential candidate of Frente Christian Social, José Antonio Kast, during his trip to the United States.
“The Chancellery reflects a state position and not a partisan position,” said the former RN parliamentarian in the middle of an act that commemorated 150 years since the portfolio he directs today was created.
“The very attitude that I maintain as Chancellor, which is the same that I maintained when I served in electoral processes as Minister of Defense: I believe that the personnel of the Foreign Ministry and particularly the ambassadors and the authorities, starting with the minister, do not it corresponds to get involved or intervene in political-electoral matters “, he clarified.
Asked if it is an instruction delivered to the personnel, Allamand specified that “the instructions that govern are the instructions that the Comptroller’s Office indicates for this purpose. The example given from the minister himself is eloquent: as you know, I have not participated in any of the electoral processes and there have been several since I took office as minister, and I believe that this attitude is the one that corresponds, and is the I understand that all the ambassadors and all the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have followed ”.
