The open microphone that complicates Macaya: “The general director of the Carabineros is more left-handed than …” | National



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During this day, a private conversation between the deputy Javier Macaya (UDI) and his counterpart Patricio Melero (UDI) attracted attention. where he refers to the new general director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, as “left-handed”, alluding to an alleged left-wing political tendency.

It was in the session in the Sala this Thursday that the microphone of Deputy Melero was open, capturing all the conversation between the two.

In the exchange, Macaya points out to his peer that “the general director of the Carabineros is more left-handed than the chucha (sic)”, to which Melero asks if he refers to Yáñez, receiving an affirmative answer from Macaya.

Later, Melero adds: “And they have it as very good”, to which Macaya replies: “I told Chadwick, at the time, they didn’t catch me hueón”.

Macaya adds that “the president of the UDI of San Fernando was a neighbor of him (Yáñez), and this hueón is from all the life of San Fernando, and from a family of left, left, left, left.”

Likewise, he adds that “this neighbor is the father of two pacos hueón, a former paco too, and he tells me ‘hueón this hueón is very left wing. It’s a hunk that … “”.

At that moment the conversation is interrupted by an announcement on loudspeaker for the Chamber, after which Deputy Melero argues: “Well, it could be good.”

Apologies

Later, and at a press point in Congress, Congressman Macaya apologized to the newly appointed Carabineros director general, stating that he gives him his full support.

Macaya pointed out that his statements “are obviously regrettable, I don’t like to express myself like that and I never do it in public in the context of a private conversation.”

“What I think is important today is to give all the support to the general director of the Carabineros, whatever his family, whatever …”, Held.

Along these lines, he pointed out that “the carabineros are not people who have to have a political ideology, and I believe that without prejudice to an expression in a private conversation with another parliamentarian that I regret that private conversations are disseminated, obviously I do not express myself that way about the carabineros, regarding any person. Unlike”.

“I hope that the general director of the Carabineros, to whom I take the opportunity to obviously apologize for expressions that are in the framework of a private conversation, and that also do not hinder in any case (…) the effort that we are going to make because their management is the most efficient possible “, he indicated.

In addition, he declared that “the ideology of the families, of the carabineros, does not have to prevent us from being able to get behind the Carabineros as a very relevant institution for the defense of democracy in Chile.”

Regarding the reference to the former Minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick, in the exchange, He explained that this was “a senator from the O’Higgins region eight years ago and I could have probably commented to him at some point.”

“It has nothing to do with the current contingency, that is, in fact, Deputy Brito in that absolutely distorted a question that was not part of the conversation that I was having again privately with another parliamentarian.”

The foregoing is related to an interpellation made by deputy Jorge Brito (RD), who left the question open on his Twitter account along with the video: “Does the dismissed Chadwick still rule at La Moneda?”

Dialogue transcribed:

Macaya: The general director of the Carabineros is more left-handed than the chucha (sic)
Melero: Yáñez?
Melero: And they have it as very good.
Macaya: I told Chadwick, at the time, they didn’t catch me hueón.
Macaya: The president of the UDI of San Fernando was a neighbor of him (Yáñez), and this hueón is from all the life of San Fernando, and of a family of left, left, left, left.
Macaya: And this neighbor is the father of two pacos hueón, a former paco too and he tells me “hueón this hueón is very left wing. It is a hueón that … “
Melero: Well, it can be good.

Check out the exchange here:



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