The president of the Senate, Ximena Rincon (DC) commented on the bill that seeks to free the so-called “prisoners of the social outbreak.” Given this, the parliamentarian was willing to seek a fast track for the approval of said initiative, although she stressed that there is some legal ignorance by those who presented the norm.
However, Rincón pointed out that “it cannot be that people, in general, who are subjected to preventive prisons, when counting the time, are discovered in many of the cases that they would have already served the sentence that they would have been assigned if they had sanctioned “.
“We hope that the discussion will take place with the background that we have on the situation that affects these people and that measures are taken by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Courts of Justice,” he said.
Finally, when asked about how her vote will be, she stated that “I have my opinion in particular, because you cannot pardon someone who has not been sanctioned (…) there is a matter of concepts that must be reviewed”, but the legal study of the causes shows that there are pending cases of the social outbreak “that have already served their sentence.”
