During the afternoon of last Friday, Giorgio Jackson announced his resignation from the Ministry of Social Development and Family, in the midst of the crisis due to the so-called case agreements.
About this, the deputy for National Renewal, spoke with ADN Jose Miguel Castrowho pointed out that the now ex-minister made this decision, since “he considered what is a constitutional accusation, where if he had the votes, and I think he did, it was out of public service for five years“.
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Furthermore, he said that “we would have liked to have seen the President more committed, in the sense of him having taken the bull by the horns, and not wait until nowafter so much time of bleeding as a result of the actions of Minister Jackson ”.
Along these lines, the also president of the investigative commission for the agreements case stated That this departure took time. “how long was toldeven people from his political sector.”
“This is a late checkouthow are we accustomed to see in this government in general,” Castro said, adding that with this “it is not that the opposition is happy with this, I think a large part of the citizenry expected and needed this“.
Case Agreements
On the other hand, the opposition parliamentarian confirmed that they will continue to invite Giorgio Jackson to the investigative commission.
“Although he says he does not know about the agreement case, indeed he has ties to the people who carried out these embezzlements. So, can contribute something regarding the investigation we are doing,” he declared.
“On the one hand, we have the Minvu edge, and on the other, the GORE edge, where there are billions of pesos involved. There is so much information that What I think is most important is to look for modus operandiconnection of actions more than of people”, explained Castro.
Finally, the deputy RN described as “very good” that the budget director is cited. “The minister Marcel has said that standards have not been loweredand so we will have her sitting at the table“, he expressed.
“Also I will invite former directors of the Dipres and the Segpres so that they explain how what did not work in this government, which was the Auditing Council, worked ”, he closed.
2023-08-12 14:29:53
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