Ms Virginia Troncoso accused her of being kicked off the bench of the UDI for supporting bills on euthanasia and the tax on the super-rich.
The parliamentarian, while resigning from her militancy after approving the first withdrawal of 10% of pension funds, remained part of the bench.
However, her latest euthanasia-friendly votes, super-rich tax and third 10% retirement would have cleared her departure, as confirmed by the parliamentarian to Radio Biobío.
In conversation with this medium, the MP stated that she was treated as if she were thinking “as a left-wing person (…) I found it disrespectful and that’s why they blew me off the bench.”
“I was expelled yesterday when I got a phone call (…) that why I had this way of voting, that I was voting just like left-wing people, and I told him to forgive me I’m not voting like left-wing people, I’m a right-wing person but I see the realities,” he added.
In his account, Troncoso said that “I found him until a disrespect because why didn’t they get me out sooner? They could have taken me off the bench when they insulted me and told me a thousand things because I had voted for the first 10% (…) why did they wait so long? (…) I found it a bad joke.”
On the other hand, he argued that “if we are seeing that we are involved in such a serious health problem where there are the needs where people have been losing their jobs….pay reductions, problems of disintegration in the family (…) then it’s a cluster of things (…) and this increased in the pandemic, unfortunately the UDI couldn’t understand it.”
On his expulsion from the UDI bench, he argued that “they called me to draw my attention, worse than a small goat, I found it disrespectful, but there they, I will not get carried away, they think what they think, it is their way of seeing it, I will continue exactly the same, voting and seeing how good my Government presents me (it) I will support , but if there’s a need for people, I’m also going to support it and that doesn’t mean I’m voting like it’s a left-wing party.”
“I don’t see what was the great sin of seeing this reality, this sad reality, and blame me no more, yet within the UDI these days and Renewal everyone has supported people’s need, so (…) I’m just the culprit,” he said, adding that “I’m fine, calm, working for what I was chosen for,” she said.
