Former Minister Mario Desbordes (RN), referred to the escalation of crime in the country, where various increasingly serious cases are known every day. This, as a result of the death of Breant Rivas, the young carabinero who, in the framework of a police control in Chillán, was shot by a criminal.
In a conversation with TVN, the former president of Renovación Nacional indicated that to solve this problem, in the first instance, “the opposition must abandon criminal populism.”
“Criminal populism is useless, in that I agree with what the government has proposed. This raising sentences only makes no sense. I am not in favor of inventing the wheel, of believing that we are an island, that we can start from scratch, if many of the solutions to the problems that Chile is experiencing today have already been implemented, especially in European countries, I would look there,” he said.
On the other hand, Desbordes defended the government of President Gabriel Boric, since he stated that they cannot be blamed if they have only been in their respective positions for two months.
“It is ridiculous that we are accusing this government of being responsible for the increase in crime if it takes two months. Let’s remove this issue from the government-opposition discussion, from the small fight, from the small brawl that has people tired,” he pointed.
Although in any case, he took the opportunity to send him a message, urging him to stop presenting “good” recipes.
“The current government coalition has to understand, now that they are a government, that they cannot continue with good recipes, of understanding towards the delinquent; looking for an explanation, it goes so far as to explain, socially, that the delinquent ends up doing what he does for fault of all of us, that we forced him to be a criminal”, he commented.
“‘The poor man who is in jail is a victim of society,’ and on the other hand, ‘everything is solved with more prison sentences, more sentences,’ and that is not the formula. Prevention, persecution, reintegration are the areas that need to be addressed and that is going to be expensive, I hope the government says ‘look, we are going to address this seriously and we are going to spend what Chile hasn’t been doing for a long time,'” he concluded.
