The presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies and of the Senate, Raul Soto (PPD) and Alvaro Elizalde, respectively, condemned the “episodes of violence” registered this Thursday in the constitutional parallel table. This, in reference to a situation carried out by the deputy Gaspar Rivas (PDG).
In a record released this Thursday on social networks, a confused Rivas is observed in the former National Congress, while some people ask him to leave a room. A woman – who was later identified as the deputy’s chief of staff – was holding the legislator’s arm and Rivas yelled “Let me go!”
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The representative of the PDG pointed out that a “group of far-right people” silenced him in the middle of an intervention.
Conviction of Soto and Elizalde
In a statement, Soto and Elizalde condemned “the episodes of violence with disqualifications and attacks that occurred in a parallel meeting, in which a group of people participated who seek to make the constitutional talks fail and who do not represent the majorities that today express themselves in the National Congress”.
“The invitation to said group did not correspond to an institutional decision, but to that of a particular senator. For this reason, the committees that represent the Senate benches made a public statement rejecting this invitation, which we share,” they added.
“Finally, we make a call to preserve the dialogue of an institutional nature that is taking place in Congress, as well as to maintain respect and prudence, to isolate those who want to make these conversations fail by carrying out attacks, insults and acts of violence,” they complemented.
On the table that they preside over, they indicated that this Thursday’s meeting “was carried out successfully, in a climate of respect.”
