Deputies of the National Renewal (RN) and the UDI requested the resignation of the director of the Santiago Metro Nicholas Valenzuela, due to old tweets in which he alluded to the massive evasion of public transport in the framework of the social outbreak. In this regard, they conditioned their support for some items of the Budget Law -on transport matters- to the fulfillment of their request.
“Evade, don’t pay, another way to fight #EvasionMasiva,” Valenzuela wrote on Twitter, in a tweet published on October 18, 2019. The publication went viral yesterday on social networks.
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The head of the RN bench of deputies, Andrew Longtonindicated that, together with a group of party legislators, “we have come to point out to the President that we are not willing to approve certain items of the Budget Law, specifically the transportation item, if he keeps someone in office who has endorsed , has fomented and promoted violence in our country, as Mr. Nicolás Valenzuela is”, collects emmol.
For his part, the deputy Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI) stated that “not only do we ask for the resignation, but we also announce that if this does not happen, we will reject the Transantiago budget item and reduce the entire Budget allocated to evasion.”
“It cannot be that who until a few years ago did not hesitate to call for evasion, today is asking for a budget to be able to pay said evasion. If the director of the Metro is not removed, we are not only going to present an indication to present the departure of Transantiago , but we are also willing to reject them in their entirety”, emphasized the parliamentarian.
