SANTIAGO.- President Gabriel Boric He confirmed that he will attend the prosecution’s invitation to declare as accused in the context of the investigation for the bankruptcy of the house of the overthrown former president Salvador Allende (1970-1973).
“Of course,” the president replied in an interview in Chilevisión this Sunday, March 16. He also said: “I pointed out to the Prosecutor’s Office that I am totally willing to collaborate with justice. And therefore, I accept the invitation to declare in the quality that … well, this is the quality of accused because the complaint is against me. ”
On March 10, the Minister of National Defense, Maya Fernández, presented her resignation in the midst of the controversy for the failed house of former President Allende, her grandfather.
The government of Chili He announced, at the end of 2024, the purchase for 933 million Chilean pesos of Allende’s residence with the aim of turning it into a museum. The house, located in Guardia Vieja 392 in the capital of Providencia, is owned by the heirs of the former president among them the now former minister. Sectors of the right questioned the operation and warned that there is a legal provision that prohibits the ministers in the end of contracts with the State.
“At that time I considered that the responsibility of the sale, of the sales process that did not come into the house of former president Salvador Allende fell on the teams that had carried out this,” Boric argued this Sunday.
The president ratified his commitment that the house of the ex -president of the Popular Unity and Patricio Aylwin so much heritage Public: “I still have the conviction that these houses should be public heritage and tell this story. Now, obviously, in the case of the house of Vieja, there was an inability and that must have been in sight.”
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On the other hand, Boric referred to the investigation for alleged influence peddling on the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Karol Cariola, and the filtration of the conversations he held for Chat with Irací Hassler, former mayor of Santiago. During the conversation, among other issues, criticisms of the government were made.
“I really do not feel any kind of personal affectation from this because I understand perfectly, as I said publicly, that between two trusted people who do not believe that a private conversation is going to filter all of Chile, they can have hard opinions at a certain time,” said the president.
