The Europarliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) expresses its solidarity with Daniel Jadue, cadre of the Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile), who remains in detention by the Chilean authorities.
Jadue was arrested on June 3, after a judge ordered he be held in preventative detention for 120 days over the “People’s Pharmacy Case”.
More specifically, in a statement, KKE MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos stressed out:
“The long-term and continuous detention of Daniel Jadue, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Chile and former mayor of Recoleta municipality, without trial, raises many serious questions.
The efforts of Daniel Jadue as mayor of Recoleta to provide low-cost medicines for the popular strata in a country where there is no insurance coverage of the prescription and the patient bears 100% of the medicine's cost, made him a target of Chile's authorities.
Among other things, the whole persecution highlights the class essence and the limits of bourgeois democracy, even when it is ruled by “leftist” alliance, with the participation of Communist Parties in the government.
We are following the developments and express our solidarity to cde Daniel Jadue, demanding his immediate and unconditional release”.
The efforts of Daniel Jadue as mayor of Recoleta to provide low-cost medicines for the popular strata in a country where there is no insurance coverage of the prescription and the patient bears 100% of the medicine's cost, made him a target of Chile's authorities.
Among other things, the whole persecution highlights the class essence and the limits of bourgeois democracy, even when it is ruled by “leftist” alliance, with the participation of Communist Parties in the government.
We are following the developments and express our solidarity to cde Daniel Jadue, demanding his immediate and unconditional release”.
