After the Supreme Court announced the new Among the candidates, La Moneda has already started the dialogues to evaluate who will be its nominee to hold the post of National Prosecutor. In the Senate they assure that a change in strategies is key so that there is not a new defeat.
This Friday La Moneda will receive the official letter in which the Supreme Court sends the quina with the candidates for the position of National Prosecutor. From then on, the 5 days that President Gabriel Boric has to designate his nominee or nominee and send it to the Senate begin.
That is, on Wednesday —at the latest— it should be known who will submit to the ratification vote in the Chamber.
Let’s remember that among the candidates for head of the Public Ministry are: lawyer Ángel Valencia; Marta Herrera, director of the Specialized Anti-Corruption and Legal Unit of the National Prosecutor’s Office; Carlos Palma, Aysén regional prosecutor; the regional prosecutor of Ñuble, Nayalet Mansilla and Juan Agustín Meléndez, current deputy to the National Prosecutor and regional head of Los Ríos.
Despite this, Since the day the Chamber of the Upper House rejected José Morales, the State ministers have held talks so as not to face a new rejection.
The Minister Secretary General of the Presidency (Segegob), Ana Lya Uriarte, said that all the background information of the candidates has been being compiled and invited the senators —who highlighted different points and showed clear differences in the previous vote— to be willing to to benefit the institutional framework of the Public Ministry.
Likewise, he maintained “it will be impossible for the 50 senators to agree on a name, because they do not agree on the same name. Therefore, we will make every effort so that the name we propose is known to the senators.”
They request pertinent conversations in the Senate to avoid a new defeat in the vote for the National Prosecutor
Senator Jaime Quintana (PPD), said that it is essential that the Government carry out the pertinent conversations so that there is no new defeat, which would severely affect the image of the Senate and La Moneda due to the relevance of the issue.
Along with this, Quintana assured that in the quina there is a clear sign from the Supreme Court. “80% of the quina are people who perform different functions within the Public Ministry. It is likely that the signal that the Highest Court wanted to give is that for the next stage, someone who knows this body may be advisable,” he said.
For his part, Senator Rodrigo Galilea (RN), who did not contribute his vote in the Morales case, said that it is key that in this period of conversation there be changes in the pre-legislative work of La Moneda in the Senate, to the ratification of the new National Prosecutor.
“It is to be hoped that in this period, which will be very brief, the necessary dialogues can be held so as not to stumble over the same stone again”, the legislator exposed.