The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, referred to the request for background information by the Comptroller’s Office to the Ministry of Justice on the pardons delivered by President Gabriel Boric to 12 convicted of crimes in the framework of the social outbreak and the ex-frontist Jorge Mateluna.
Along these lines, the Secretary of State pointed out that “it is totally normal for the Comptroller’s Office, at the request of parliamentarians, to request the information”, and that “unless as an Executive it does not worry us.” This, since from the UDI the requirement was entered into the agency.
You may also be interested in:
“The Executive has said several times that all this procedure was done in accordance with the law, with all the respective care, but the Comptroller’s Office is a comptroller body and at the request of parliamentarians it can request the background information,” Tohá declared.
Faced with the requests of parliamentarians that the pardons be revoked, Tohá stated that “I think that yesterday the Executive spoke quite clearly about all these issues and there is nothing new from yesterday to today that will change the criteria that were expressed.”
“The Executive considers it normal for the Comptroller to request background information when there is a concern from parliamentarians. Nothing new to add. Yesterday the spokesperson referred to this issue, she was quite clear, there is nothing new to add,” Tohá concluded.
