translated from Spanish: Undersecretary of the Presidency urged Congress to promote the “security agenda” after attack in Tirúa

During this day the undersecretary of the Presidency, Máximo Pavez, made a call to promote the security agenda and responded to the request for resignation made by Deputy Monsalve and the governor of Biobío, Rodrigo Díaz, about the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, after the new arson attack in Tirúa.La authority maintained that “the first thing we want to say as a government is that it has to give consistency and, rather than asking for resignations, the invitation to Congress and the opposition that is asking for resignations is that we support, approve and promote the security agenda that our government is promoting.” Along these lines, he recalled the discussion of the “Juan Barrios” law that aggravates the penalties for arson crimes, “which Deputy Monsalve voted against,” he added. Therefore, the call to Congress and especially to Deputy Monsalve, is not to ask for resignations, it is to support and accelerate the legislative agenda of the government in the area of security, both at the level of the Juan Barrios law, which as I said establishes hypotheses of sanctions for cases in which we can dramatically know in the last few hours, the gun control bill and especially the bill, the short law and the long anti-terrorism law, which has not moved in the Senate Constitution Committee,” pavez said.As for the request for resignation of the interior minister by Monsalve and Diaz, the authority said that “the truth is that here must be very clear: Deputy Monsalve has asked the Interior Minister to resign because, according to him, he has not been able to control public order in La Araucanía.” I would like to remind Deputy Monsalve that the current governor Rodrigo Diaz, when he was mayor of the Biobío Region and when there were similar attacks resulting in death, did not ask President Bachelet’s interior minister to resign,” he said.

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