Tohá Sounds the Alarm: Unpacking the Monsalve Case and the Dangers of Election-Year Politics
After casting her vote at Mapocho Station, the Secretary of State had a tense session in the press, after being asked if the investigation against Monsalve will affect the outcome of the votes.
Carolina Tohá, the Minister of the Interior, had words about the case of rape involving her former secretary Manuel Monsalve, but he called not to link this investigation to the 2024 Municipal and Regional elections.
After casting your vote at Mapocho Station, the secretary of state had a tense squeeze pointafter being asked if the investigation against Monsalve will affect the outcome of the votes.
Considering this, he emphasized that “the citizens make the decisions in the elections, their voice is the one that is important today.”
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“When thinking about your commune, your region, what is best for that place is what takes priority. There are many things in the environment, but the basic thing is who we want to lead our commune, our region,” he added.
About the Monsalve Case, Carolina Tohá He recognized that “every new thing that is known is a source of great effect. This is all very angry and very shocking. However, today we are in an election, A moment of those that Chile in its history has always had as luminous moments, at a time when the best of who we are comes out.”
“That is what is to exist today, We are not going to allow it to be stained or defiled with this very abominable thing that grows darker every day, that we learned about the Monsalve case,” he repeated.
This is why the Minister of the Interior asked the situation that Manuel Monsalve is experiencing not to take a central part in the elections, since then. “Tomorrow we will have room for that, today it is about Chileans electing their authorities democratically.”