Moments of tension were experienced, during this day, between the PS senator Alfonso De Urresti and the minister of the Segpres, Giorgio Jackson, at the beginning of the session of the Constitution, Legislation and Justice commission of the Senate.
It all started, when in the instance, De Urresti expressed his annoyance at the absence of the head of Justice, Marcela Ríos, who had been invited to speak about the projects that her portfolio intends to carry out.
“I regret that the minister does not appear before this commission, to which she was invited. I understand that she favored a formal visit to the president of the Valparaíso Court of Appeals. That seems to me to be a mistake, a lack of deference and priorities,” maintained the socialist senator.
In that sense, he added that “I take advantage of the fact that Minister Jackson is there to represent my discomfort. Are we or are we not here to legislate?”, he questioned.
And it is that the minister of the Segpres, “has requested, among other things, urgency for the amnesty project” continued De Urresti, “and it seems to me brutally contradictory that the minister has not come and is in protocol work. I would ask her to represent this situation, because we don’t deserve this treatment.
Immediately, the president of the session, Matías Walker (DC), indicated in response that “we are going to represent him” and suggested listening to what Minister Jackson and the undersecretary of the portfolio, Macarena Lobos, had to say about it; who, in addition, would expose at that time, on the reform to bring the polling places closer to the voters in the exit plebiscite of the new Constitution.
Before Walker’s intervention, De Urresti insisted: “I ask that we respect the agreements, the Minister of Justice was invited here, we have to discuss this project with her, on another occasion we can invite Minister Jackson.”
After the interventions of Luz Ebensperger and Rodrigo Galilea, the head of the Segpres, assured that this issue, “we are going to raise it with the minister, with whom I just communicated and promised to attend the next session.” But despite this, after a few minutes, De Urresti left the committee room.
