In the middle of the session of the Chamber of Deputies, the parliamentarian of the Communist Party (PC) Carmen Hertz, rebuked the opposition after her counterpart Cristián Labbé (UDI) called her a “denier” for questioning the management of the former director of the Institute National Human Rights (INDH), Sergio Micco.
Hertz rejected “the insulting and damaging statements to my honor made by Deputy Cristián Labbé, accusing me of being a denier.”
Likewise, he pointed out that the fact “offends not only me, but all the victims of the extermination, the Human Rights organizations that have bravely fought for memory and never again.”
“In short, it also offends society as a whole, since it is about trivializing heinous crimes because deputy Labbé, lacking a minimum of modesty, for belonging to a political party that was born as a defender of the crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship,” Hertz added.
In the middle of her speech, the parliamentarian was interrupted with claims and blunders by the opposition, for which Hertz declared “please, shut up; could you call this pack in front of me to order?”
After the situation, the recently assumed president of the Lower House, Vlado Mirosevic (PL) called for order, pointing out that “the deputy (Hertz) is making use of a right that we all have.”
Thus Hertz continued with his speech, accusing the opposition of wanting “the civil death of the Communist Party.”
“What is worrying is that this is inserted into an abject manual planning, through which the heirs of those who led the extermination seek for now the civil death of the Communist Party and we do not know what else they will ultimately seek, which reminds us of McCarthyism and the Nazi dictatorship,” assured the parliamentarian.
After what happened in the Chamber, from the UDI and the Republican Party claims arose denouncing a “lack of respect” on the part of Hertz’s statements.
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