The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Government, Giorgio Jackson, together with Senator Fabiola Campillai, announced that the Government will place the utmost urgency on the project of amnesty for the prisoners of the outbreak. After the news, the opposition did not delay in condemning the measure, alluding to the visit of the Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau, to tenants of ground zero, where he apologized to the neighbors affected by the disturbances and destruction in the sector.
Senator Iván Moreira, head of the UDI caucus, maintained that the government is awarding “criminals and violentists” an award.
“The government, forced by the extreme left, urgently puts forward a bill that does not have the necessary votes in the Senate for its approval, given that this would be a real prize for the criminals and violentists of the social outbreak,” he said. “In the ruling party itself there are different views, because it would be a sign of impunity,” he added.
On the other hand, the senator from Evópoli, Luciano Cruz-Coke, threw his darts at Minister Grau and announced that they will use “all the strength in the world not to re-victimize those neighbors.”
“It seems unacceptable that while the Government, through Minister Grau, apologizes precisely to the inhabitants of ground zero, to the tenants who have suffered fires, looting, Molotov cocktails, Minister Jackson is promoting a pardon law for criminals who have produced precisely that violence and that suffering,” he said.
“We will not accept this and we are going to fight with all the strength in the world not to revictimize those neighbors, those tenants, those entrepreneurs who have suffered a real hell from October 18 onwards and of which today the Government wants to become an accomplice “, he added.
The deputy Andrés Longton did not subtract from the criticism and accused the Government that with the measure, it is more concerned with the perpetrators and not with the victims of the events.
“We find the one that the government is giving counterproductive and a very negative signal, and that has been reiterated in recent times, with respect to giving signals to the perpetrators and not giving any signal of protection to the victims,” he said.
“By giving urgency to the pardon project for the prisoners of the social outbreak, the only thing it does is continue with this feeling of impunity and the lack of protection that the victims are experiencing,” he concluded.
