After the senator and president of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Javier Macaya, expressed that “I do not like the festival of constitutional accusations and the polarization in Congress”, the parliamentarian of the Democratic Revolution (DR), Catalina Pérez, He questioned the offensive launched by the opposition against the Minister of Social Development, Giorgio Jackson, the now former Minister of Justice, Marcela Ríos, and even the idea of impeaching President Gabriel Boric.
“The opposition has constructive ways to carry out its work, it is something that I have appealed to in recent times and I hope that it can be imposed, with dialogue formulas,” Macaya said last Wednesday, January 4, to Radio Cooperative.
Given this, in the opinion of Deputy Pérez, “it is always a problem when counterweight mechanisms to the Executive are used without justification and without any consideration of seriousness in their presentations, which I believe is the case of what we are seeing today.” .
in conversation with emolPérez maintained that “what ends up happening is that the work of the national Congress is denigrated and the weight and relevance of this type of actions is reduced. At a time, moreover, when I believe that as a country we need just the opposite.”
“We have seen in barely a year, shortly after the government, just at the beginning of a second year of government, an accused minister, the President and a minister threatened with being accused, the opposition leaving a security work table when I precisely believe that what we need as a country is the opposite and that the task of providing certainty to the citizenry is not only for the government, but also for the opposition and the ruling party,” he commented.
“More than misusing these tools, what we need is to open channels of dialogue, conversation and the ability to generate agreements. This is what has not existed, at least in terms of the will of the other side,” added the militant from DR.
Consulted about the constitutional accusations that the current ruling party presented when it was in opposition to the Piñera government, the parliamentarian points out that “it is an error to compare both contexts.”
“It is a mistake, because not only were we in a context of a poorly managed pandemic that put people’s lives at risk, but also because we were going through one of the darkest moments in terms of human rights violations in our country,” declared the deputy Pérez.
“The accusation that we entered against former President Piñera or the former Minister of the Interior (Chadwick), was about massive human rights violations, dozens of people killed or in conditions of confrontation with government-directed police forces, hundreds of ocular mutilations that occurred Comparing this circumstance with what we are experiencing is not recognizing that the country’s political moments require political actions in a country that is also in a different context,” concluded the pro-government legislator.
