Authorities affirm legal investigation being carried out over allegations of harassment.
Chilean authorities have confirmed that President Gabriel Boric is being investigated over allegations of sexual harassment.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Legal professional Basic Cristian Crisosto stated allegations filed in September on the prosecutor’s workplace of Magallanes in southern Chile, the place Boric beforehand served as a lawmaker, are being investigated.
The 38-year-old Boric has “categorically” denied the allegations by means of his lawyer Jonatan Valenzuela, who stated in an announcement that Boric himself had been “the sufferer of systematic harassment by way of electronic mail”.
Valenzuela stated the criticism comes from a girl who despatched Boric unsolicited and sexually express emails from July 2013 to July 2014 whereas the criticism accuses Boric of harassment and leaking non-public photos.
He added that the president had “by no means had an emotional or pleasant relationship” with the accuser, who’s unnamed, and communications information between Boric and the lady have been submitted to authorities to “make clear the standing of the president as a sufferer”.
Crisosto stated “there’s a legal case associated to the information listed” and a particular investigative workforce has been tasked with trying into the matter.
Boric took workplace in March 2022 after a wave of mass protests in opposition to neoliberal financial insurance policies and has struggled to maneuver progressive priorities ahead
The harassment allegation comes at a time when the Chilean president is mired in a separate scandal involving allegations that former Undersecretary of the Inside Manuel Monsalve raped a subordinate.
Boric enjoys presidential immunity and must be impeached to be formally investigated for against the law.
