translated from Spanish: Opposition responds to Minister Pérez’s sayings: “The only blackmailer is him”

The Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, participated this morning in the Program Mesa Central de Canal 13, where he was consulted on why he did not remove the managing general of Carabineros, Mario Rozas, in order to circumvent the constitutional accusation that opposition deputies push against him, which was reactivated after the events that occurred last October 2 on the Pío Nono bridge , when a Carabinero was involved in the fall of a protester to the Mapocho River, a situation that generated great controversy and is currently being investigated as a potential assassination attempt. Faced with this question the Secretary of State noted that “Who knows me knows that I will not do that (…) that’s blackmail and I’m not in politics to bear blackmail, there are many in the country today who are blackmailed, who are threatened and can succumb, I’m at least not going to do it.” This response provoked a wave of reactions in the opposition, as the Emol medium points out, rescuing the statements of the drivers of the accusatory libel, who were angry in separating the waters, distinguishing on the one hand the situation of General Rozas and on the other that of the minister, and thus reiterating the criticisms of Pérez’s management and his ability to maintain control of public order. In this sense, Ms. Carmen Hertz (PC) said that there are arguments to support the accusatory libel, noting that “the political responsibility of Minister Pérez does not disappear with the removal or non-removal of General Rozas, who in turn has responsibilities in the systematic and serious violations of the fundamental rights of individuals, responsibilities that justice will have to establish within the framework of the complaint initiated against him”. Rodrigo González, MP PPD, retruded the minister’s sayings and noted that “the only blackmailer here is Minister Perez, he has been unable to safeguard public order, to prevent violence in Chile, to safeguard human rights and people’s lives, the lives especially of those who are manifesting themselves”, adding that “He is blackmailing the whole country with the incompetence of his government , and with the incapacity it has (…) and that’s the only blackmail, there’s no other blackmail. Here Carabineros must be reformed, because today it is a danger to the country, to democracy, to have a carabinieri corps with an interior minister unable to control public order and contain violence.” For her part, Meps Alejandra Sepúlveda (FRVS) called Minister Pérez’s statement “unpresentable,” “where she accuses of blackmailing the possibility of removing General Rozas and thus avoiding constitutional indictment. I think what was blackmail was this stoppage of the truckers that finally ends with an agreement in La Moneda.” He added that “those of us who sign the constitutional indictment have never made General Rozas’ withdrawal subject, are absolutely different things, and we have determined from day one that they are not binding and that it has nothing to do with the procedural point of view and how the constitutional indictment will continue.” Meanwhile Jaime Naranjo, MP of the PS, argued that Minister Pérez, “always, in one way or another, has been a silent accomplice in the serious human rights violations that occurred in the past, and now in our country. One would have hoped that in that interview that without sketching mere disqualified epithets about constitutional indictment, he would have better expected a self-criticism about his role, about his management, as well as the role that the Carabineros institution has fulfilled, but zero self-criticism,” adding that “when he’s saying this is blackmail, he demonstrates his null and void ability, his absolute inability to address the situation that today is facing the country. , where a would have expected a self-criticism about the unfortunate situation that is happening in the country, and how lousy its management has been, not only in matters of public policy, but also in exercising its command around the institution of Carabineros”. Humanist Action Mp Tomás Hirsch pointed to the blackmail charge, noting that “I will reassure the minister, it is no blackmail, because we believe it is imperative to remove General Rozas, but that will not prevent us from going on with the constitutional indictment. The constitutional indictment is for the minister’s political responsibility for his actions and inactions in relation to Carabineros, truckers and La Araucanía.” So, these are two different situations, you can rest easy (Perez) that there is no blackmail here, we are posing that you should take General Roz outbecause he is not in a position to give Carabineros a full respect for human rights and we also have a constitutional charge against the minister for the political responsibility he can … both situations we want to continue and he is not contingent on the other.” Finally, Mr Gabriel Ascencio (DC) said that “there is no blackmail of any kind here, what happens is that at this point, just as we are, actually today it is not only necessary for Rozas to leave”, and also noted that “So, with these permanent attacks on our institutionality by the Minister of the Interior, to the Judiciary, Contraloria , asks people to pressure MPs to get the laws they want. Disrespect for the rule of law makes it appear that Rozas has to leave, but also that the minister of the interior has to go. That’s why I think the constitutional accusation is so strongly justified.”



Original source in Spanish

Related Posts

Add Comment