The President of the State Defense Council (CDE), Clara Szczaranski, announced Tuesday that Carlos MacKenney’s will assume her role as the new president when she steps down on Dec. 1st.
“(Carlos MacKenney) was nominated based on his great professional ability, merit and enormous knowledge of state matters,” said the government spokesman Osvaldo Puccio.
The new president is a trained lawyer and member of the Christian Democratic Party (DC). He has served as the sub-secretary of the navy and was the former chief of legal branch of the Interior Ministry. He is widely respected inside the current presidential administration and is reportedly very close to presidential frontrunner, Michelle Bachelet of the Concertación alliance.
The decision to appoint MacKenney comes after a series of controversies surrounding the outgoing CDE President Clara Szczaranski. In 2000, Szczaranski was reprimanded by the Supreme Court for negligent behavior. In 2004 the attorney angered the human rights community by proposing an “improper amnesty” for human rights violators, and made unfounded accusations against the Secta Moon religious group after the death of a fellow CDE lawyer.
President Lagos’ appointment of MacKenny overrode Szczaranski’s request for reappointment as well as her choice of a potential successor.
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