President Gabriel Boric said he was “convinced” that there is no political persecution in the preventive detention of the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue (PC).
In interview with CNN Chile Radiothe President assured that “he trusts in the work of the Chilean justice system and that the institutions work in Chile.”
“I may have an opinion regarding the use of preventive detention in recent years in democracy and how it has been used in general terms, (but) I am not going to talk about a specific case: I believe that the institutions in Chile work and that There are no judicial political persecutions,” Boric analyzed.
Likewise, he pointed out that “Mayor Jadue, like the other mayors accused in different cases, several of them also in preventive detention for very different reasons, have to defend themselves in court.”
“That is where we have to prove the arguments, not by attacking the institutions,” warned the head of state, who also stated that he has “instructed and agreed that the government must have a very clear position regarding this, which is that the “Institutions have to function independently and without any pressure.”
“So, regardless of the opinion one may have regarding the cases, the use of a tool by the justice system, I trust the Chilean justice system and I am convinced that there is no type of political persecution here, beyond the evaluations that one may have of a particular political figure,” he pointed out.
Along these lines, he gave as an example that he has “a very bad opinion of former mayor Raúl Torrealba (Vitacura) and I have a good opinion in general of the transformative work that Daniel Jadue carried out in Recoleta and of thinking ‘outside the box’, but If today there is a case in court, it must be responded to in court.”