It was an expected result for everything that had been going on in the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, but the only one that clung to life was the Communist Party. However, this Wednesday they decided to disconnect the artificial respirator that still kept the option of deputy Karol Cariola assuming the presidency of the Lower House still latent.
Through a statement, the PC announced that it resigns “for now” to preside over the Lower House, which corresponded to it after the administrative agreement reached on March 11 by practically all the benches, except the one on the right; the same one that began to falter weeks later, due to the doubts generated by his name in the People’s Party (PDG), the DC bench and some independent deputies, especially after the PC’s support for a lawsuit filed against the former director of the INDH, Sergio Micco, and Cariola’s active role in the failed Approval campaign in the past plebiscite.
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In fact, the Government of President Gabriel Boric itself decided to play its cards – including a Plan B – so that the right would not take control of both chambers, which would jeopardize La Moneda’s legislative agenda.
“For reasons beyond our control, today there are no conditions for a communist militant to assume the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies,” the PC said in a statement.
According to the community, “a veto” has been imposed that “is not healthy for political coexistence or for democracy in our country.” “We regret that this is the state of things, but it is the reality: those who compromised their word against Chile confirm that they will not comply,” adds the PC.
In the text they add that “it is a complex and difficult situation, since we believe that those who are not capable of sustaining their political commitments will find it difficult to fulfill their commitments to the citizenry. Honoring the word is a foundation of politics, which by not complying the parties to breakdowns and loss of confidence among militants and before the citizens”.
“As Communists we have already said it: We are not available for our name, that of our Party, to be used or for any of our militants to be publicly insulted, as an excuse for not keeping our word,” they affirm.
“As a Party, we renounce, for now, our legitimate option, given the breach of what was agreed, at the same time that we call on the political forces to seek the agreements that are necessary in order to have a table that contributes to the government and its agenda of transformations that are so necessary for the people of Chile and also legitimately conquered at the polls through our democracy”, they conclude.
Meanwhile, this November 7 is the last day that the Chamber of Deputies will be chaired by the board of directors led by Raúl Soto (PPD). That day the deputies will have to elect a new frontwoman, whose names will not include “for now” Karol Cariola.
Read the full statement at the following link.
reactions
After the PC statement, various political actors came out to comment on Cariola’s resignation of the option of presiding over the Chamber of Deputies.
The deputy RN Andrés Longton pointed out that “what the Communist Party does is what it should have done a long time ago. Stubbornness led them here, not seeing clearly that the country is not going in the direction of what they would like, and that the ideological bias we must put it aside. We must prioritize security, the Chileans’ pockets, and the radicalism that the Communist Party represents could not be in charge of the Chamber of Deputies, which has to face social emergencies according to the needs that are translatable on a day-to-day basis”.
The Senator of the Democratic Party, Ximena Rincóncame out to criticize one of the points of the statement, that of the veto, pointing to the radio Pattern that “there is no veto against Karol Cariola. Manipulating things in this way seems very unserious to me.”
