After the Prosecutor General’s Office established that it will not persevere in the investigation against the former Interior Minister under the second government of Michelle Bachelet, Rodrigo Peñailillo -in addition to 33 other people-, within the framework of the SQM Case, Senator Guido Girardi (PPD) said that he does not see “legal incompatibility” regarding the possible senatorial candidacy of the former secretary of state , representing the PPD.
“I do not see any legal incompatibility, because it was not formalized and even less had a conviction, but it is the table that will have to evaluate, like any other candidacy, according to certain political criteria: it has territorial support, electoral viability, good performance in some public function, etc.,” the congressman commented.
“I believe that all the quotas of every candidate has to be evaluated… we want a clean sheet,” he added.
“What does a clean file mean, a file that has no history, but that must be targets of domestic violence, of non-payment of responsibilities of men towards women when there is abandonment of responsibility towards children and also in cases of crime,” the legislator continued.
He also said: “I believe that we must also evaluate, for example, when there are people, in general I say this, who have not been formalized, or have not been formally investigated in some way, and have no criminal sanction. We have to make a political assessment there obviously.”
Constituent Unity Debate
Likewise, the senator valued positively the first television debate of the three candidates of the Constituent Unity (UC) pact: Yasna Provoste (DC), Paula Narvaez (PS) and Carlos Maldonado (PR), held on Monday through La Red and Channel 13.
The congressman said that “the strength of UC is to have the only two women candidates who performed excellently.”
He added that “both made a sustained effort to talk about relevant issues, the future and how to build a better, more equitable society and do it in peace and governability so that these transformations are viable and help the development of Chilean families.”
For the parliamentarian “each one expressed very well the social democratic and Christian social worlds from which they come”.
Male candidate
Asked about the questions about the role of the DC in the Coalition governments, Girardi said that the coalition “had ups and downs, the first ones are evident: defeat of the dictatorship and drastic reduction of poverty; the second were omissions, but with the experience of mistakes you can deepen the successes.”
He added that “the declassifications of the male candidate to one of the female candidates seems to me to be not even worthy of comment. Attitudes like that are punished by the citizenry.”
