The senator of National Renewal (RN) Manuel José Ossandón highlighted the importance of the permanence of the political forces in the so-called Security Table, after his own party confirmed that Chile Vamos will not participate in the instance with the Government and slipped that they will deploy own schedule.
“I do not want us to get off the national security table and that is why with the senators of National Renewal we are doing serious work and we proposed 11 concrete measures,” said senator Ossandón, without giving further details about those measures.
“For this reason, because I believe that this is an issue of national priority, a higher issue, we cannot get off the table, we have to find concrete solutions for a crime that has us absolutely overwhelmed,” added the RN legislator, in the midst of a political crisis that had as its last milestone the resignation of the Minister of Justice Marcela Ríos.
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It is worth mentioning that the decision of Chile Vamos not to participate in the security table, after the pardons made by President Gabriel Boric last week, reached the ears of the President himself, who from Brazil – where he attended the inauguration of Lula da Silva – invited the right to be part of the meetings on security. “Chile cannot continue waiting for us politicians to end our fights in order to have concrete measures,” the Head of State specified.
Likewise, when asked about one of those pardoned, the former frontista Jorge Mateluna, sentenced to 16 years in prison for being one of the perpetrators of a bank robbery in 2013, Boric stated that “I am fully convinced of Jorge’s innocence and that is why we have carried out this pardon”, adding that there were irregularities in the trial.
The head of the General Secretariat of Government (Segegob), the spokesperson minister Camila Vallejo, told The Mercury of Valparaiso that the call for the right is to focus more “on getting the legislative agenda and the aid out of the people rather than getting involved in minor political quarrels or disputes.” In addition, he pointed out that “security has to be the most important thing and the priority on the government’s agenda.”
Regarding the Security Table, Minister Vallejo stated that it is still maintained and they are waiting for the opposition to sit down to talk. “We have to make a commitment and we are going to make it with those who want to be on top,” she said, along with stating that “you can have differences over the pardon, but you have to sit down and talk about the security agenda.”
