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Despite being all part of the same political bloc, deputies from the Broad Front summoned the mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharp (Independent, former Social Convergence), to clarify any irregularities reported within the municipality due to misuse of public resources, and in front of the corresponding report from the Comptroller General of the Republic.
According to recently known information, the controlling body detected that $ 931 million they were diverted from school subsidy funds in the municipal corporation of the mayor’s office headed by the former member of the Social Convergence party. In addition, it was found that adolescents from high schools in the commune provided paid work without the permission of their parents.
The complaint was filed in 2019 by the deputy Andrés Celis (RN) and it points out that minors would have provided services to private cocktail makers, for example, since they study gastronomy, so it would be a type of internship through which they would have been paid.
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DEPUTY IBÁÑEZ: “AS A CONGLOMERATE, WE DO NOT TOLERATE ANY FAILURE TO PROBITY”
In this framework, the deputy of the Autonomist Movement (MA), Diego Ibanez, supported the work already being carried out by the Children’s Ombudsman and the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic on the matter, since “They are institutions that have to be complied with without nuances to ensure transparency and rights throughout the public administration.”
To the above, he added that “breaches of probity are not tolerable, wherever they come from, and the mayor has to take charge of responding quickly to the investigation.” He added that the mayor “makes a self-criticism and must take it to the practice, because he is the municipal chief and it is the managerial commanders of administrative affairs who are exclusively trusted. We as a conglomerate do not tolerate any lack of probity, transparency or rights in public administration. “
🔴Deputy Diego Ibañez (CS) due to a judgment of the Comptroller’s Office of the Valparaíso Municipal Corporation: “Faults to probity are not tolerable wherever they come from and Mayor Sharp will have to take charge of responding quickly to the investigation. @ 24HoursTVN pic.twitter.com/7KnHbq990D
– Poirot Escovedo (@poirotes) October 6, 2020
Another Frente Amplio parliamentarian who joined the call was Gabriel Boric (Social Convergence), who argued on social media that “Any lack of probity and misuse of public resources is unacceptable, no matter who is responsible. In this we cannot have a double standard.”
Therefore, he demanded that the Municipality of Valparaíso “must respond to the Comptroller’s report and punish whoever corresponds. I have no doubt that this will be the case.”
Any lack of probity and misuse of public resources is unacceptable, no matter who is responsible. In this we cannot have a double standard. Muni de Valparaíso must respond to the Comptroller’s report and sanction the appropriate person. I have no doubt that it will.
– Gabriel Boric Font (@gabrielboric) October 6, 2020
By last, Gonzalo winter, also from Social Convergence, was in a similar line and established that “what was detected by the General Comptroller of the Republic in the municipality of Valparaíso, must be investigated in depth, and then assign corresponding responsibilities and take consequential measures.”
It should be noted that this controversy arises only months before the municipal elections of April 2021, so it could strain relations within the opposition conglomerate.
Institutions that ensure transparency and probity are essential for the functioning of a democracy. What is detected by the CGR in the municipality of Valparaíso must be investigated in depth, and then assign corresponding responsibilities and take consequential measures
– Gonzalo Winter #yoApruebo (@gonzalowinter) October 6, 2020
