The Chilean Minister of Justice, Marcela Riosresigned from his post on Saturday, following a request by the president gabriel boricamid accusations of irregularities in pardons awarded to people associated with the violent protests of 2019.
Lawyer Luis Cordero Vega He will take office this Monday, as Boric communicated on video, in which he thanked Ríos for his work during his 10 months in office. “When situations of these characteristics occur in politics, we must take responsibility,” Boric concluded.
The Chilean president had supported pardons for those convicted of violent crimes during the protests that shook the trans-Andean country in 2019. pardoned list included men between the ages of 21 and 38 involved in various crimes such as looting, robbery, and manipulation of Molotov cocktailsamong others.
But political opponents denounced the pardons because they included a former guerrilla imprisoned for other crimes (the robbery of a bank in 2013), and were preparing to file a request for impeachment this Monday in Congress, where Boric suffers repeated setbacks.
The president could not achieve a majority to approve the list for a new attorney general and a package of economic measures. A picture that weakens the Government together with the departure of the Chief of Staff, Matías Meza-Lopehandíaright hand of the president of the left.
In less than a year, Boric has changed several central pieces of his Cabinet: In September, after the failed plebiscite, the Government had to recalculate the path. And in August, the Minister of Social Development, Jeannette Vega, had left her post after unauthorized contacts with one of the radical Mapuche leaders, Héctor Llaitul.
