The Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, reported that he requested a “legal report” to learn more about the hiring of Pascual Pichún, brother of the CAM spokesman, Héctor Llaitul, at the La Araucanía Health Department.
Thursday afternoon the seremi Andres Cuyul defended Pichún’s arrival in the portfolio, assuring that “he had a legal problem some time ago, in 2003, he served timemet the requirements and He has no inability to hold public office. as stated by T13.
And today, during a tour of the Biobío region, Undersecretary Monsalve assured that “this is in the hands of the Ministry of Health, particularly the Undersecretary of Public Health.”
“From the Interior I requested a legal report regarding the situation, in order to verify the possible criminal record of the person who was hired, because I believe that finally the responsibilities are individual and not familyand, therefore, it is necessary to evaluate what the legal status is and if indeed the criminal record is as it has been said”.
“And, therefore, I have requested a legal report on the matter and the final decision is in the hands of the Ministry of Health and the Undersecretary of Public Health”, Monsalve concluded.
For his part, Undersecretary Cristóbal Cuadrado, consulted on this issue, indicated that “I think it is very important to clarify that this is a contract that occurs in the Araucanía Health Department, which is therefore a decision that occurs autonomously in that department. of health”.
“We understand that there has been information that has appeared in the press, therefore we have instructed the regional seremi to collect all the administrative and eventually legal information related to the case and to let us know and inform us. So that all the background is available to be known in a public way, ”he added.
However, he pointed out that “it seems very important to remember that any situation of this type must be very clear about the separation between the responsibilities that individuals may have versus family responsibilities. Therefore, this is a matter that we will be very attentive to and that the region’s seremi is collecting and reviewing carefully in order to be able to promptly request all the requirements that have existed in order to learn more about the situation.”
From Chile Vamos and Republicanos officiated at different government departments as a result of Pichún’s hiring.
Yesterday, the RN bench of deputies contacted Jackson to learn more about this issue. “The government counts among its ranks Pascual Pichún Collonao, convicted of the crime of arson, a crime for which he was arrested in 2010, after remaining a fugitive from justice in Argentina. The new hiring of the Administration of President Gabriel Boric Font is, in turn, the brother of one of the spokesmen for the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, whose leader (Héctor Llaitul) has publicly challenged the State of Chile”, they indicated.
This day, while from the bench of deputies of the Republican Party he also officiated to the government, specifically to the Minister of Health, Begoña Yarza. In this sense, they asked to be informed of the reasons for hiring Pichún, the tasks that he will carry out, his remuneration and if the Minsal was aware of his arrival at the seremía.
On the other hand, from the UDI they also complained about this issue and indicated that “this news seems very serious to us, we are talking about repeated crimes in La Araucanía of fire and the government rewards those who commit said acts, which are acts that border on the terrorism”, explained the deputy Gustavo Benavente.
He added that “the person who committed a serious terrorist crime is being rewarded and at the same time someone who belongs to an organization that declared war on the Chilean state is being hired.”