In the middle of the session in the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies where the 2023 Budget Law was being discussed, the Republican Party deputy, Cristián Araya, questioned the search for disappeared detainees, which sparked a tense moment in the Chamber.
“The Government seems generous to finance the INDH with 14 billion pesos, 16 billion for grace pensions of the alleged victims of the criminal outbreak, 2079 million for the Museum of Memory of some. If the generosity is even so much that will allocate 2,069 million to foundations such as the Salvador Allende Foundation, Villa Grimaldi Corporation, Patricio Aylwin, etc. 900 million pesos for an alleged search for disappeared detainees,” said the parliamentarian in his presentation.
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Given this, boos and noises began to be heard from those present, while Araya continued indicating that “lots of money for comrades, colleagues, companions, partners, affiliated followers, cousins, uncles, nephews and girlfriends, for friends, Millions abound for that, but there are no resources for important issues for the security of Chileans.”
What unleashed disorder in the session, for which the president of the Chamber, Vlado Mirosevic, had to intervene and tried to continue with the discussion of the 2023 Budget, calling for respectful treatment “especially in such sensitive matters of our history”. .
However, the discussion was suspended for five minutes to calm the atmosphere. Within this recreation, the representative of the Communist Party, Lorena Pizarro, rebuked the Republican bench, saying “dare again.”
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After the tense moment, PC parliamentarian Lorena Pizarro referred to what happened at a press point and emphasized that “we cannot allow a sector full of hate speech, denialist, to install that logic (…) Every time who want to distort the truth, every time their hate speech takes center stage, we are going to confront them.”
