Former Minister Giorgio Jackson’s Resignation and Controversies: Updates and Reactions

2023-08-18 05:30:15

For a short time away from the public eye was the now former Minister of Social Development Giorgio Jackson, following he resigned last Friday. On Wednesday followingnoon, shortly following the end of the cabinet change that the President of the Republic applied as a consequence of the removal of his friend and former deputy, he used his Twitter account to wish “success and strength to the new cabinet authorities.” , congratulating Marcela Sandoval, Nicolás Cataldo, Carolina Arredondo, and Aurora Williams, of whom he said that “they have very important challenges ahead to advance the well-being of Chile”, also devoting “a special hug” to Javiera Toro, his successor to head of the Ministry of Social Development.

A few hours earlier, the former Secretary of State and President Boric’s travel companion retweeted (following five days of inactivity on that social network) the announcement by the Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, regarding the announcement that, following consuming 38,000 pesos a month , Red system users who use QR codes will have unlimited free transportation until the end of the month.

However, it was also a day of grace for the former minister, since the Puerto Montt Guarantee Court declared admissible an extension of the complaint presented by the senator of the Socialist Party Fidel Espinoza, which requests that the former Secretary of State be persecuted and the current Head of Budgets, Javiera Martínez, for crimes such as tax fraud, bribery and influence peddling. The judicial action “points to the fact that the Ministry of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres), when it was led by Giorgio Jackson, weakened the Government’s General Internal Audit Council, which is in charge of supervising the allocation of resources by state departments,” according to radio Bío Bío.

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