translated from Spanish: “It has stolen Viña!”: rebuking Mayor Virginia Reginato during session of the City Council

The first session after the report of Comptroller revealed scandalous financial irregularities in the municipality headed by Virginia Reginato Viña del Mar City Council was in the red.  In the instance faced building Chief UDI supporters and citizens of Vina del Mar, who came to the venue to face Reginato and claim his departure.
In the instance, the “Aunt Coty” was received on the Council with shouts and applause of viñamarino – older adults in their most-who supported and defended the Mayor despite the impasse that currently faces.
However, in a matter of minutes arrived citizens to express their outrage for the breach of the principle of the legality of the spending, leaving in evidence the Comptroller. Phrases such as “It has stolen Viña!” or “until when Mayor?” Resign please”, exclaimed the viñamarinos that directly rebuked the Mayor.
In an atmosphere of tension, the session was suspended for 30 minutes, while effective special forces of police, they evicted demonstrators who continued their protests outside the venue.
Legal to dismiss Reginato this week, neighbouring commune action entered a complaint against the mayor by fraud to the Treasury, with the aim that the Public Prosecutor investigate irregularities which – according to the report by Comptroller – up to on 21 December 2017 they reached $17.585.250.174 million; $5.540 million in overtime and $7.077 billion in fees, equivalent to nearly 15 percent of the municipal budget.
“The Administration is already worn out enough years ago and never showed doing things rights and real needs of the community,” said Nicolás López, Chairman of the Board of silk sea neighbors, who drove the first legal action against Reginato . “We believe that this puts an end to what is the municipal administration of the Mayor and those who are behind them,” he added.
The lawyer who filed the complaint, Luis Cuello, hopes that “councillors take the floor and to ask for the removal of the Mayor,” said UCV TV.
In this sense, Marcela Varas Councilor noted that “the deficit was not recognized in the public accounts from 2015 to 2017,” therefore, “are all the background to accuse Reginato by remarkable abandonment of duties”.
In defense of the management of the Mayor, the city manager of Viña del Mar, Claudio Boisier, expressed that there is a “provision of the municipality” to collaborate in everything what continues.

Original source in Spanish