Although there were more points on the table -such as constitutional negotiations-, the removal of the ex-seremi of Social Development of the RM and PPD militant Patricia Hidalgo took over a large part of the meeting of the board of directors of said community yesterday Monday night.
And it is that Hidalgo’s departure from the regional secretariat has not been without commotion. While the ex-authority accused “undue” pressure to vote projects in a certain way and thus align with the government’s position, a statement from Social Development revealed that his departure -in formal terms- was due to reasons of “loss of confidence”, added to a specific fact: that the PPD militant had not reported a case of alleged rape in a care center for homeless people.
An accusation that the ex-seremi denies and that she estimates will imply initiating -as Hidalgo pointed out yesterday to The Third PM– legal actions once morest the minister Giorgio Jackson. “I am with my lawyer evaluating actions because he damaged my honor”reiterated yesterday in t13, which would also be extended to other government officials, such as the spokesperson Camila Vallejo. His lawyer will be Marcelo Castillo.
However, the PPD has chosen to distance itself from Hidalgo’s onslaught following leaving office. “The appointment of positions of exclusive trust only corresponds to their removal by the authority that nominates them (…). We recognize the political trajectory of the militant Patricia Hidalgo. Nevertheless, His behavior is not consistent with the behavior that all PPD militants must have in the exercise of public positions and functions, especially when they stop exercising the same “reads the statement of the national table, who distance themselves from Hidalgo’s actions and reduce support for the militant.
But what happened at the party meeting? The call for each Monday -they point out that they were present- started with the president of the store, Natalia Piergentilidetailing that during the followingnoon of Monday he held a meeting with the Minister of Social Development, Giorgio Jackson. Aware of this exchange, they explain that the meeting had the intention of putting all the background on the table before the internal instance of the PPD. In any case, in this past – and despite the fact that it implies the removal of a militant – Piergentili has been aligned with the government.
In fact, and following finishing the meeting by constitutional agreement in the former Congress, the PPD leader gave her support to Jackson –with whom you have had disagreements during the course of the government– before a possible threat of impeachment by Republicans over this and other issues related to his portfolio. “There is a problem here, we are collecting the background, which is what corresponds to me, as president of a party, in order to have -both for the militancy and for public opinion- an absolutely founded position (… ). That this type of thing is used for constitutional accusations, it seems to me that it is not understanding the country’s priorities, ”she said.
Jackson would have reiterated that the WhatsApp that Hidalgo revealed with authorities such as the Undersecretary of Social Services, Francisca Perales; or the presidential delegate of the RM, Constanza Martinezthey lack a “context” other than that revealed by the ex-authority and that they had not been directly instructed how to vote on certain projects -such as the water treatment plant in Quilicura, or the Mall I live in Ñuñoa-, but that I was present at the sessions of the environmental evaluation commission like the rest of the regional authorities. An account of this is that on more than one occasion he did not vote in line with the government’s claims.
It would also have been clarified that in the case of an alleged violation, the first report would have been made to officials of the semi-metropolitan Social Development department, so it was appropriate that the fact be denounced from that division.
On this last point, Hidalgo affirmed a different version yesterday. He assured that he was notified by one of the workers of the seremía, who told him that “the network was being activated at the ministerial level”, since the residence where the events occurred depended directly on the ministry. The ex-authority claimed to be aware of the background when there was already a complaint regarding the casegiven that the background would have been reported to the “central level”.
The statement in the PPD was agreed unanimously, despite the fact that some voices closest to Hidalgo -such as the first vice president, Marco Antonio Nuñez- came to his defense during the course of the table meeting. Aware of the strategy adopted by the party, they affirm that they opted for a “A blunt version, in order to close the flank with the government and not escalate the conflict any further.”
Harder was the declaration of the Ñuñoa communal community -of which Hidalgo is a part, as a former councilor of the commune-, who summoned the national table that, “in order not to harm the party image, we invited the National Directorate to analyze, study carefully and recommend the best people to fill a position, both in capacities, skills, abilities and above all with codes of ethics and political vision, to avoid similar situations in the future”.