translated from Spanish: With 120 signatures deputies submitted investigative commission for INE case

This Thursday was presented with the signature of 120 deputies of Tod As the benches, the request for the creation of a special investigative commission responsible for monitoring the acts of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), regarding the eventual manipulation of the IPC recently reported by the authority.
In this regard, the main promoter of the initiative and President of the Economic Commission, Pedro Velásquez (IND-FRVS), valued the broad support of those who “understood the urgency of this instance that will allow us to investigate what happened at the National Institute of Statistics by all known, because this is not a matter neither of government nor of opposition, it is a problem of state, in the public faith of all Chileans and Chileans and also of all the international organizations “.
“We know that when international organizations such as the World Bank or the IMF are looking for figures from Chile, one of the ones that is used is precisely the ones that the INE gives, therefore the damage that has been caused by this situation of possible management of the statistical data has generated , not only in our country, but also in international organizations, a mistrust and we hope that this Commission will generate concrete conclusions so that the Government can take it together with the opposition and in such a way generate an autonomous organism, with resources , but to have or to return the validity of our statistics to international bodies. ”
For his part, Congressman RN, Miguel Mellado, stressed that “We support this research committee because this is very important to the credibility of the country. What happened here is not a mistake. The error can occur in a month but in two months it is no longer a mistake. Here’s Dolo, we don’t know if there’s an illicit association. That’s what justice should investigate. ”
“I think as a country we have been serious so far. The accounts have been very transparent and that there is an IPC of a 0.1 plus or a 0.1 less, it affects all people who are seeing us, all of you, because it is all linked to UF and this lies, both in mortgage loans and pay daily and also in what s salaries and pocket of each one of you. I think it is tremendously important what is done here. As the President of the Commission said, “This is a cross-cutting issue”, it is not a political issue and we want to get in depth in this investigative committee. ”
Finally, Velasquez explained that they will seek the collaboration of all the parliamentary committees to put it in board in the session of the District week return Tuesday, in addition to advancing, in his capacity as President of the Economic Commission, that will reiterate the Invitation to the INE’s national director to expose the background to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the internal audit.

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