The Green Ecologist Party (PEV) announced on Tuesday night that it broke relations with the Government while the Minister of Education, Marco Antonio Avila, stay in office. This, after an altercation between the party deputy viviana delgado and the Secretary of State, occurred yesterday.
The discussion took place after a session of the Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies. According to Delgado, he asked Minister Ávila to reopen a school in Maipú. In response, the head of Education yelled at him and indicated that he was tired of being “beaten”. After the altercation, the legislator broke down and she ended up being treated in the infirmary of Congress.
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Given the fact, the deputy and head of the PEV bench, Felix Gonzalezpointed out that “there has been a case of verbal aggression by a minister towards a parliamentarian, something that we are not going to accept and as PEV we have decided to cut communications while Ávila continues as minister.”
“It is something that we cannot accept, the attacks on parliamentarians, the verbal attacks, we also believe that a limit must be set, we are not going to accept this and we are going to cut communications at all levels,” added the parliamentarian.
After the events, Minister Ávila publicly apologized to Delgado for “the way in which we conducted that dialogue.”
Delgado statement
Deputy Delgado issued a statement Tuesday night addressing the altercation with Ávila. The legislator regretted the “bad reaction” of the Secretary of State and pointed out that he “disrespected” her.
“I told him about the problems that boys and girls from the Kingdom of Denmark high school in Maipú are experiencing,” said Deputy Delgado in the statement.
“I told him that the classes were suspended due to environmental contamination caused by suspended dust that contains quartz, an issue accredited by the Chilean Security Association, produced by the illegal extraction of aggregates carried out by the Imperial mining company, indicating that his ministry had not taken letters on the matter affecting more than 600 students,” he added.
“Given this, the minister getting out of his role, disrespects me by raising the tone of the conversation telling me that he was tired of being beaten, losing control, indicating that if they were concerned about the situation, an issue that in fact, they were not. It has been like this, also apologizing that there were more than three thousand schools and he could not be in all of them, following the discussion in an inappropriate tone,” Delgado continued.
