Daniel Jadue, former mayor of Recoleta, votes and says there will be “a great victory today”

The former mayor of the municipality of Recoleta, the communist Daniel Jadue, who is under a precautionary measure of house arrest while he is investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for corruption crimes in the popular pharmacies case, went this Sunday to vote at the ‘República’ basic school. of Paraguay’, in Recoleta, after the Third Guarantee Court of Santiago has accepted an appeal for reconsideration filed by his defense, Juan Carlos Manríquez, to exercise his right to vote in the municipal and regional elections.

Both their entry and exit from the voting center have been chaotic. The ex-edil, accompanied by his partner, the Brazilian lawyer Anjuli Tostes, walked with difficulty among a group of adherents and reporters. He has not made statements to journalists, whom he has blamed for not organizing to hold a press conference. “The media didn’t want it,” he argued before retreating back to his home, in the La Reina commune. He has also slipped that in these elections there will be a “great victory today.”

Jadue has been under house arrest since September, but was held in preventive detention in the Captain Yáber prison for three months.