Opposition questions the sayings of Minister Víctor Pérez on the legacy of President Piñera



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From the opposition, they questioned and described as serious the sayings of the Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, who in conversation with La Tercera pointed out that “Piñera’s legacy will be to have chosen an institutional path to resolve the differences of Chileans.”

The senator and president of the Socialist Party, Álvaro Elizalde mentioned in this regard that “Minister Pérez’s statements are especially serious. What does it mean to point out that President Piñera’s main legacy was to have opted for democracy? Perhaps it means that the government evaluated an authoritarian exit, or that President Piñera, in the midst of the social mobilizations, evaluated putting an end to the democratic system of our country ”.

As the PS president complemented, “the constituent process is the result of citizen mobilization, the government initially opposed this process, however for reasons of political calculation and pragmatism, given its low social support, it decided to agree to a majority demand of the people of Chile, therefore if there is a protagonist in this process it is the millions of citizens who demanded to put an end to the abuses and inequalities by moving towards a new constitution ”.

In the interview, Pérez also pointed to the plebiscite on October 25 as one of the president’s legacies. Given this, the President of the DC, Fuad Chahín mentioned that “The statement made by the minister that the legacy of the President of the Republic is going to be the constituent process seems stupid to me.”

“We all know that this constituent process did not have the active participation of the government. This was, on the one hand, a citizen demand that was channeled through the parties, through Congress, where the biggest contribution the government made was not getting directly involved “He pointed out, adding that “today trying to appropriate the constituent process as the legacy of the President of the Republic seems to me a lack of respect for the country.”

The president of the DC also had words for the statements of the Minister of the Interior in relation to the violation of Human Rights in Chile after October 18, on which the government authority mentioned that “I am left with the statement of the Institute of Human Rights that in Chile there was no systematic violation of human rights “and that” I have not seen any sentence in that direction.

“I find the attitude of the Minister of the Interior extremely serious in relation to his insensitivity to the issue of human rights”, Chahín pointed out, emphasizing that “not recognizing what is in various reports also from the United Nations, on the serious human rights violations that occurred during the repression of the mobilizations in 2019 seems absolutely unacceptable.”

For his part, from the PPD, the party’s president, Heraldo Muñoz, pointed out that “I don’t think there is an explicit presidential legacy, Piñera had no other way out than to choose the institutional path to resolve the crisis we were experiencing,” adding that “The virtue of the president was not to have stood in the way of the plebiscite and the constitutional process.”



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