translated from Spanish: Chile: lost her vision due to police repression and will be a candidate for the Senate

The political coalition Lista del Pueblo, made up of independents, will finally have the candidacy for the Senate of Chile of Fabiola Campillai, a woman who lost her vision in both eyes as a result of the police repression that occurred at the close of 2019.Campillai said in this regard that although it was not his idea, because “it is born from the People’s List” , its motivation is the search for justice for all and all victims of human rights violations in the context of social protest.” They told me that it was a little for justice, not just for me (…) justice is for me and all the people who have been damaged by the Carabineros,” he told the trans-Andean channel 24 Horas.

In November 2019, the 37-year-old woman was hit in the face by a tear gas bomb fired by a Carabineros officer as she was preparing to work in the capital city of San Bernardo.Since then she had to be hospitalized and intervened three times. However, he lost his sight completely and the person responsible, the captain of the Carabineros, Patricio Maturana, was charged by the courts. Campillai believes that it is about justice, “and being able to legislate for the people of the village, not for a few and that this hierarchy that exists in the country is ended”: “We want laws that help us and that go in support of all the people,” he said. In this regard, he admitted that he ended up leaning towards the People’s List because it is a “totally independent” option, and because “no political party, no political color” represents it. 

The pre-candidate, who announced that her campaign will be carried out under the slogan “Justice now,” registered her name in the Electoral Service (Servel), under independent candidacy with the support of the People’s List.On the other hand, that group saw how the conventional constituent, Rossana Vidal, disassociated itself from its bloc after alleging differences due to the positions presented by the group recently.” I came here to be a conventional constituent in a social movement that was its end, and not to support presidential candidacies, deputies or anything. Every thing in its time and my time is this,” Vidal told Radio Cooperativa.With Vidal’s departure, the conventional bloc suffers its second loss after constituent Elisa Giustinianovich did so.

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