During this Friday, Congress must vote again to approve or reject a new request for an extension to the State of Exception. In the morning, the Chamber of Deputies approved the measure, so now it is the Senate’s turn to make the final decision.
Before the motion is voted on, the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, had an intervention in the room that generated controversy in the opposition benches. “In the last four years, it seems that some have forgotten, hit their heads, or it really seems that everything started from scratch, but there were four years that from 400 violent events, they reached more than 1,700,” Siches said. .
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After these statements, the opposition parliamentarians left the room for a few minutes, but finally returned and approved the new extension of the State of Constitutional Exception for the southern zone.
The Secretary of State’s words prompted apologies from the UDI and RN caucuses, while the Republican Party requested her resignation.
resignation request
After the controversial episode that took place in the room, the Republican deputy, Christopher Urruticoecheaspecified that “we accept the minister’s apology, but we do not believe her. That she has apologized is because of an agreement that was made in committee, she does not feel it (…) hundreds of times she has had to apologize for the pressure that a country puts against its mistakes a thousand times”.
“We no longer support this situation, we rightly ask the minister to resign. If she doesn’t, we ask the President of the Republic to understand that there is a country that is suffering and leave his friends aside,” he added in 24 hours.
The legislator also urged President Gabriel Boric to leave his friends aside in case Siches does not resign “because of his negligence, pride and arrogance.”
“How many misfortunes like these are we going to have to continue enduring? How long is Chile going to have to continue enduring apprentice rulers? They are simply a shame,” he concluded.
opposition criticism
On the other hand, the opposition parties were critical of the minister’s statements and what was experienced in the Chamber. “From the year 1990 to date, none of any Minister of the Interior had been erased from the minutes,” said the UDI deputy, George Alessandri.
He also pointed out that “the important thing is not the reason that she wanted to explain, the important thing is that she applies the cancellation policy to you. If you do not think like me, I insult you (…) it is something that we see quite repeatedly. Every time you don’t think like them, it’s Fake News, they insult you or say you’re out of your mind, and an independent state power can’t accept that.”
The head of the RN caucus, Andrew Longtonjoined the criticism stating that “what seems to me most serious is how symptomatic this government has been that when you do not share its opinion, intolerance comes to light with all its lyrics”.
Along these lines, Longton insisted that this type of attitude “has polarized the debate around an issue that should unite us all, because security has no political color. The people of the South Macrozone only ask that we empathize with what they are experiencing. “.
“We accept these apologies, but we hope that this type of situation will not be repeated in order to give the appropriate signals to people,” he concluded.
