translated from Spanish: Minister of the Interior asked for support for commutative pardon and defended urgency to Humanitarian Law

The Minister of the Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, referred to the government’s decision to send a veto to the commutative pardon law, which establishes the consequences for inmates who violate the benefit while under house arrest and added the exclusion to the convicted of domestic violence.
The initiative, which seeks to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country’s prisons, allowing inmates to serve their sentence under the form of total house arrest, excludes convicts of serious crimes and cases of rights violations from the benefit Human.
In addition, the Executive announced that he will give immediate discussion to the Humanitarian Act, which commutes sentences to prisoners over the age of 75 who have served half of their sentence and are at risk of death or total disability. This project does not discriminate on the basis of a crime.
On the veto of commutative pardon, the interior minister said that “we discuss it with party presidents, parliamentarians and head bankers, I ask you to support this proposal that is necessary because we have to take care of the health of the population.”
Before the Humanitarian Law, Blumel stated that “this is a campaign commitment, has been supported by cross-cutting personalities, such as José Zalaquet, emblematic figure of the DDs. Hh. or Father Fernando Montes.”
“It’s a subject that’s part of the DD discussion. HH., that in certain circumstances, at certain times, persons convicted of serious, repudiable crimes, wholly objectionable as crimes against humanity, persons who are seriously ill and who are terminal or prostrate, may replace his prison sentence with house arrest,” said the chief of staff, who added that this is a debate the country is in a position to hold.

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