The deputy and general secretary of the National Renewal (RN), Diego Schalper, clarified his controversial statements during a meeting between leaders, parliamentarians and conventional members of his community held on Monday. In the appointment, the legislator said that the party has to “make opposition with everything” and “stunt” the government of Gabriel Boric.
“This party, more than ever, has to oppose everything, and spend the first three days with Boric’s Minister of Labor and say ‘ya poh, weren’t we so agile? Where are the trainings? start to atrophy”, he maintained, revealed Third.
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Regarding his controversial statements, Schalper, in a conversation with the press, mentioned that “what I said is that we have to push, that is our task. I remember when the Democratic Revolution said of having a critical collaboration.”
“We will be a clear opposition, we will ask the government for results, but the ministers will not be questioned for pleasure as is the case in the current legislative period,” he added.
In the meeting with RN militants, Schalper also called for “taking away moral force” from the Constitutional Convention, in view of the exit plebiscite.
“We must subtract the strength and moral superiority that the Convention claims to have,” said the deputy this Wednesday. “They say they have broad instances of participation, but it is not consistent with the fact that there are initiatives with 50,000 signatures but that are touched in only 45 minutes in commission,” he added.
Vallejo: “Unfortunate pettiness”
The future government spokeswoman, Camila Vallejopointed out that Schalper’s sayings are of “regrettable pettiness and very irresponsible”
“That there is a parliamentarian who tries to demoralize the Constituent Convention with the tremendous task that he has and attack and call to atrophy the Government in the important challenges, it seems to me that it is of an unfortunate and very irresponsible pettiness,” he said. 24 hours.
“We expect a constructive and not destructive opposition, unfortunately these statements are in the line of not building (…) they do not do what the country needs,” he added.
