After presenting his resignation in August of last year, in the midst of the controversy over the so-called Covenants Case, the former Minister of Social Development, Giorgio Jackson, announced a few days ago that he filed a lawsuit for defamation once morest 23 deputies of the Democratic Union Independent (UDI).
“Eight months ago, UDI parliamentarians signed a letter defaming me, of course, without any evidence. “I reiterate that I am willing to withdraw from this lawsuit with respect to those who offer genuine public apologies,” said the founder of the Democratic Revolution, who specified in the libel that the congressmen “damaged his honor, unfairly linking him to the money mess case and also to the theft of computers.” in the Ministry of Social Development.”
Faced with this judicial attack, which in the opinion of those close to the former deputy aims to “set a precedent that not everything goes in politics”; The UDI announced that it is considering filing a countersuit.
“We are collecting all the information, because there is more than one case where Mr. Jackson insulted us as UDI deputies (…) And if necessary, we are going to counterclaim in a counterclaim, we are already working on that to defend ourselves. If he wanted to enter that plane, it was his decision,” said deputy Henry Leal.
“Untimely”
At the local level, two deputies are included in the lawsuit: UDI activists Marta Bravo and Cristóbal Martínez. The latter classified the judicialization of this issue as “inappropriate.”
“As we have repeatedly stated, former Minister Jackson has every right to exercise the legal actions that he deems appropriate, as we also have our right to respond to the demand and evaluate other types of measures,” said Deputy Cristóbal Martínez.
Notwithstanding that, he added, “we find it absolutely inappropriate and incoherent on his part that he has decided to judicialize a political criticism. It seems to be forgotten that when he was a deputy, under that same political context he accused former President Piñera, his ministers and the Carabineros without any evidence.
“It is within your rights”
From the Frente Amplio, the regional coordinator of the DR, Katterina Osorio, maintained that neither at the central nor regional level has the issue been addressed “neither as the former DR, nor as the current Frente Amplio,” she said.
“The only thing I can comment on, personally, is that Giorgio Jackson has complete power to file a lawsuit, as any free person in the country has the right to do. It is not appropriate to give it any more thought, just to say that Giorgio Jackson has every right to carry out this action, and I do not think that this should affect the relationship or agreements with the right, since unless the right does not agree that “People express or exercise their natural right as Chileans, to make their demands, their complaints accordingly, which are legally established,” he stated.
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