President Boric removes Minister Marcela Sandoval after failed attempt to purchase Salvador Allende's house

This morning it was known that President Gabriel Boric requested the resignation of the Minister of National Property, Marcela Sandoval. The brief statement, in addition to thanking “the work performed” by the now former minister, reported that the subrogation of the position would remain in the hands of the current Undersecretary of BBNN, Sebastián Vergara Tapia. Vergara is 41 years old and a member of the Party for Democracy (PPD). He is a gra…

President Gabriel Boric has asked Monday for the resignation of the Minister of National Property, Marcela Sandoval, who was part of the government since August 2023. He has done so after his administration, after announcing at the end of December that it would buy the house of former president Salvador Allende (1970-1973) located in the municipality of Providencia, in the eastern sector of Santiago, to turn it into a museum, to kick back on Fri…

After the failed purchase of the house of former president Salvador Allende, the appeal to the Constitutional Court and a lawsuit for fraud against the state authority of the country were confirmed. Reactions following the crisis caused by the purchase that was to be made for almost 1 billion pesos, from the house where former president Allende lived. This, because part of the owners were state leaders, such as the current Minister of Defense an…

President Gabriel Boric's promise to eliminate the presidential delegates, included in his government program and reaffirmed by his administration in 2022, remained unfulfilled, generating discontent among the newly assumed regional governors. This figure, which should be eliminated in order to strengthen decentralization and empower the governors, remains following the government's decision in 2024 to consider it necessary to ensure the coordin…

Carolina Tohá pronounces on the resignation of Marcela Sandoval after the failed purchase of Salvador Allende's house. Self-criticism and government decisions.

After his dismissal as Minister of National Property, Marcela Sandoval issued a statement to the press expressing her respect for the president’s decision and expressing her commitment to collaborate in the investigations to clarify what happened with the purchase of Salvador Allende’s house. To read the full article, visit The Times in [...]