After the two unsuccessful nominations for national prosecutor made by President Gabriel Boric with the names of José Morales and Marta Herrera, the Supreme Court ruled this Tuesday and decided to fill the field of candidates with the lawyer Erika Maira, thus ruling out the possibility of making a new contest, despite the request made by the President to the president of the Highest Court, Juan Eduardo Fuentes.
The lawyer Erika Maira thus joins the lawyer Angel Valencia and the regional prosecutor of Aysén, Carlos Palmawho were selected on November 7 in the first process, together with the Ñuble regional prosecutor, Nayalet Mansillaand the substitute national prosecutor and regional head of the Public Ministry in Los Ríos, JJuan Agustin Melendez, added to the list on December 6. One of those five names must be chosen by President Boric to propose to the Senate.
Maira is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, she is 45 years old and works as Manager of the Victim and Witness Care Division of the Public Ministry. She was deputy prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Sexual Crimes and Intrafamily Violence of the South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office for almost a decade, between March 16, 2009 and August 31, 2018. Likewise, he was an assistant prosecutor from February 2006 to March 2009, in the Special Prosecutor for Violent and Economic Crimes of the same distribution.
The new member of the quina for national prosecutor has published messages through her Twitter account, once morest the same head of state, Gabriel Boric, former president Sebastián Piñera and the UDI.
“Shocking regarding Boric and the shirt. Macabre”, (sic), Maira wrote on January 4, 2019, referring to an episode in 2017 when Boric was a deputy and received a shirt from Jaime Guzmán shot.
While on July 18, 2018, he posted the following tweet. “But this is in Congress, the same one that Florcita Motuda, Boric, etc. goes to. None is characterized by formality. This was an excess of the tie gentlemen”, (sic).
In the same way he wrote on May 25, 2014 regarding the Piñera government. “But @letelierdip!!! you in govt Piñera drew a law to pardon half the world and then they made 20603 so that almost no convicted person serves prisoner”, (sic).
And on another occasion, he tweeted on August 30, 2013: “President Piñera at the Mining Dinner talks regarding the judicialization of mining projects as something bad…. Economic power is absolute?”, (sic).
This is also how he targeted the current mayoress of Providencia, Evelyn Matthew.
“#alliance please don’t be crazy with #Evelyn Matthei. She has no impulse control and hates motherhood, among other things. we don’t want that”, (sic) published on July 17, 2013.
On July 19, 2013, meanwhile, he said that the “UDI sends veto signals over Allamand and C.Larraín seeks to stop Piñera’s interventionism /apart from the UDI”, (sic).
And previously on January 22, 2013, he criticized that “UDI and RN should be taken to 1 paddock, where are dn 1s good combos, and dps bring them combed. What a way to show the lint!”, (sic).
Lastly, on January 12, 2015, he wrote that “just like with appointments to TC and members of the Senate They excuse themselves from having done them with pretexts that not even elementary school children use. better be honest”, (sic).