He affirmed that the strange thing would be that there was no communication between the powers of the State, the head of the General Secretariat of Government (Segegob), the spokesperson Minister Camila Vallejo, referred to the questioned telephone call from President Gabriel Boric to the Supreme Court, within the framework of the elaboration of a new group of applicants for the position of National Prosecutor —vacant after the rejection on two occasions in the Senate of the candidates proposed by the Executive.
“We are about to start a third attempt, the Supreme Court is going to establish a procedure, we are going to wait for that. And indeed, and they asked me yesterday but due to the contingency we did not want to refer to the case, obviously, there is communication between the different branches of the State,” said the government spokesperson to meganewsregarding a situation that generated “perplexity” among the ministers of the country’s highest court and provoked criticism from some senators – who pointed to the responsibility of the head of Justice Marcela Ríos.
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One of the criticisms of the call was made by Senator Matías Walker, a Democrat, who told The counter that “the best thing is that the President relates to the other powers of the State through his ministers”. Minister Vallejo confirmed that President Boric personally called the head of the Supreme Court, along with remarking that “the strange thing would be that there was no communication between the two important leaders of the two powers of the State, in a case that has been complex.”
The Secretary of State added that the presidential intervention “has to do with the process,” although she specified that it is not up to her to give more details at this time. Camila Vallejo considered that the telephone call “is the natural thing, the common thing”, and reiterated that “the strange thing would be that the Head of State did not have any type of communication with the person who is presiding over the Supreme Court or with the person who presides over the Senate. These communications have stay”.
On the next steps of the crucial election of the head of the Public Ministry, since the call of the head of the Executive to the Judiciary would have been precisely to request the development of a new machine —from scratch—, the head of the Segegob maintained that “this It is determined by the Supreme Court, they are autonomous powers and we fully respect that.”
“The Supreme Court is going to have to determine how the procedure continues. If it is going to keep the machine and fill the quotas or it is going to do another new process, but it is important that the Executive is aware of what may come and in that there is communication”, emphasized Vallejo; who called to “live up to the circumstances”, since “there is no prosecutor or candidate for prosecutor who can be tailored to the taste, the perception, the political evaluation, of one or the other senator, senator”. In any case, the spokeswoman for La Moneda assured that “entrenchment in personal positions is not going to help us, because it simply does not give the quorum for that.”
Vallejo explained that “for the Senate to approve a candidacy presented by the Executive, which is based on a Supreme Court quina, it is not about those that occurred to me overnight, there is no possibility that the candidacy for the Senate is approved if it does not have two-thirds of the senators of the Upper House. So, if you have 30 senators who have 20 different proposals, it does not give a quorum”.
“It is necessary to look at who has the best chance, but according to a profile that has technical components such as track record, experience and proposals to lead the National Prosecutor’s Office.”
