The diary The Clinic revealed this Sunday the full statement that the president Gabriel Boric gave prosecutors in charge of the investigation for rape and sexual abuse to a subordinate against the former Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalvein which he recognized having found out about the accusation two days before that his former “security czar” resigned from La Moneda. After that, The entire right attacked the president.
“I became aware that there was a complaint of sexual abuse and rape against former undersecretary Monsalve on Tuesday, October 15, around 4:00 p.m.because the Minister of the Interior had told me so, Carolina Tohá. Furthermore, it informs me that There was a PDI investigation into his access to hotel security cameras. regarding that fact,” part of his testimony, as recorded The Clinic.
“I immediately decided to talk to Monsalveso I summoned him to La Moneda around 8:30 p.m., since he was in Valparaíso. I meet with him, and he immediately tells me that he wanted to talk to me about something delicate, I tell him that it is because of the complaint and he tells me that he did not know that there was a complaint,” he continues.
“He tells me that on September 22, he went out to lunch with an official from the undersecretary’s office at a restaurant and that After the 2nd pisco sour he no longer remembered anything, until he woke up with her at 06:30 in his hotel bed. He also told me that he had had a previous meeting with her on September 1, when they had gone out, as I remember, to the Costanera Center. In the entire conversation I had with him, he told me that he did not have any emotional sexual relationship with her,” the document continues.
“Monsalve also told me that he was worried about having been drugged or something similar. I asked him if something had been stolen from him, and he told me no (…) he pointed out that when he woke up in the hotel with the complainant, they both agreed that they did not remember anything. “He pointed out to me that they were both in the same bed, but he did not tell me under what circumstances,” said the president.
The first to open the questions was the Republican leader, José Antonio Kastwho through his X account, accused that “unlike his initial statement to the press, President Boric now affirms that I knew everything about the Monsalve case from the first minute”.
“Why didn’t you kick him out then? It gets more and more complicated and sooner or later the truth will come to light.”, criticized the boss of the Chilean right.
From Renovación Nacional, the head of the bench, deputy Ximena Ossandónmaintained that “this confirms that President Boric had in charge of the security of all Chileans a subject who was reported of rape and who Only on Thursday, after the newspaper headlines, did he decide to ask him to resign.”
The president of Evópoli was of the same opinion, Gloria Hutt “It seems unacceptable to me that throughout his entire statement he does not mention not a single action in favor of the victim. The closest thing is to file a summary, but we are talking about a serious crime,” he said.
For his part, the deputy of the Social Christian Party, Roberto Arroyoindicated that “There is a lot of inconsistency, especially in the chronology of the events, which shows poor management.”
This day, the Minister of Labor, Jeannette Jara, He stood up to the criticism and assured that Boric’s statement “It is absolutely consistent with what he has stated publicly.”
“This is a very serious complaint, painful for the rest, which generates all our repudiation, with a victim who has the due right to protection and, for the same reason, we have collaborated and we are going to continue doing it with total transparency so that Justice can fulfill its role,” he began his speech.
“It is not appropriate to make any other type of interpretation,” she added emphatically.
“Now it is time for Manuel Monsalve to respond to the queries that are pending and that require a response from Justice and the citizens,” he finished.
