translated from Spanish: José Antonio Kast on the case of Felipe Salaberry: “I should have resigned sooner”

GopISTIC Party leader Jose Antonio Kast addressed the controversial departure of former Undersecretary of Regional Development, Felipe Salaberry, and distanced himself from the statements of UDI President Jacqueline van R ysselberghe, who in the context of the accusations against the former authority, claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office acts as “the armed arm of the left”.
Asked about it, Kast considered that Salaberry’s situation serves to set “a different standard for all government authorities.”
The former presidential candidate also criticized the hiring of Salaberry’s partner in the Intendencia de Arica and Parinacota, without having a university degree and earning a salary of more than 3 million pesos.
“It is not applicable here that from a position of power no one should enter to work without the necessary skills. We don’t believe in nepotism, we don’t believe in the smurf and we’re going to start raising the issue so that from left and right they can see who from their family environment are in public bodies in positions of trust,” he said.
“In a situation that was clearly going to put the government in a complex problem, it should have quit sooner than it did,” he added.
Finally, with regard to van Rysselberghe’s sayings, the former MP said that “I believe that there are left-wing judges and they have subjugated the law to their political looks, but they would never have said that it is anyone’s armed arm because they are individual stakes and there are judges who do very b their work and others act ideologically. Not because some judges act ideologically, we’re going to convict the entire judiciary.”

Original source in Spanish