For months the security table, proposed by the government, has been delayed after the opposition gave up participating after the pardons. During the week, the Minister of the Interior Carolina Tohá together with the opposition bench resumed talks and there was an open spirit. The minister declared that she sees a different provision and sees “light at the end of the tunnel.”
The minister anticipated the closing of the negotiations and said that she had reached common minimums: “I can now announce that with the RN senators we have reached an agreement on an agenda of issues. And with this impulse it is also that we want to choose a day starting tomorrow in which we call back all the political forces to close this agreement and get to work to implement it“. However, the oven was not ready for scones.
Senator Manuel José Ossandón (RN), who has made repeated calls to his coalition not to get off the security table, warned that the minister’s announcement did not contribute to the progress: “There is no agreement to reactivate the security table because Despite the fact that we have advanced negotiations, the approval of all RN senators is still missing, who must evaluate the scope of the document that the minister has given us.” The announcement of these advances, says Ossandón, “has been a mistake by the government to advance resolutions that are not closed, because it only complicates things and causes undue pressure.”
