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When the Jaime Mañalich’s lawyer indicated that they would not present the previous question before the vote of the constitutional indictment against him, several opposition deputies shifted uncomfortably in their seats. It was a show of confidence like that of someone who already knows in advance that he has a favorable scenario.
And indeed it was. After a session of almost six hours, the former Minister of Health finally escaped the accusation, mainly thanks to the seven abstentions by opposition parliamentarians. And those were precisely the votes that were missed to complete the 78 necessary supports.
But when even in the opposition they regret the hard blow, the concern now focuses on what will happen to the other constitutional indictment they are pushing, this time against him Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez.
Although, the contexts are different. In the case of Mañalich, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating him, which is not the case with the former UDI senator. To this is added that at least within the Christian Democrats they do not agree with accusing Pérez for the issue of blocking trucks, a crisis that also in his time ministers of the phalanx had to face when they were part of the Government.
Thus, the scenario does not look very auspicious for those who promote the constitutional accusation against the Secretary of State, to which is added that the wounds due to the controversy between the new Concertación and the rest of the opposition that have not yet healed reached an agreement facing the elections of governors and mayors, in an embarrassment where the Wide Front came out very beaten.
But what happened also raises doubts about the Plebiscite and how all the opposition sectors that support the Approval will do it to agree and eventually present candidates for a constituent convention.
So far they trust several opposition deputies who have expressed their criticism of Pérez’s work regarding the fact that he has not “given the breadth” to control the Carabineros. Especially, for not having been able to settle the departure of Mario Rozas. However, now the scenario is very uncertain.
What is my fault
After what happened with Mañalich, the opposition knows that they must take note of the failure so as not to repeat the fiasco with Pérez.
In that sense, the deputy and president of the PPD bench, Raúl Soto, He assured that the opposition has to learn from mistakes. And in that sense, he pointed to the need to improve coordination between the banks.
“Here, enough of an opposition that acts rather out of individual convictions and that is incapable of dialogue, converse and consensus on common paths and objectives. We have to learn the lesson, that the same thing that happened to us with the constitutional accusation against Minister Mañalich does not happen to us, now with which we are going to come with Minister Pérez, ”he said.
“We hope that all the actions that we face as opposition will be much more discussed, much more consensual and much more responsible from the point of view of ensuring political viability so that we never again inflict a defeat like the one we saw”, he declared.
No opposition
More critical, the deputy of Acción Humanista and one of the signatories of the accusation against Pérez, Tomás Hirsch, maintains that what happened reveals that in practice there is no opposition in the Chamber.
“I regret the result of the accusation against Mañalich, but I am not surprised. Unfortunately there is no opposition majority in the Chamber of Deputies, in practice there is a group of deputies who have systematically voted together with the Government, they are available to cast votes that ultimately put interests of another type first, ”he questioned.
In that sense, he denied the alleged lack of unity and coordination between the opposition banks and parties.
“They are totally cheap excuses and those who make them know perfectly well that they are missing the truth. Because precisely those who allow themselves to be pirouetted by the Government are the same ones who lock themselves in offices with the ministers, who listen to offers, those are the ones who later say that there is a lack of coordination, “he lashed out.
The bad precedent
While the criticisms and questions go from side to side, the truth is that what happened with the accusation against the former Health Minister marks a bad omen.
This is precisely what the deputy Hirsch recognizes, who assures that “there remains a very bad precedent in the sense that it becomes clear that the opposition is not a majority, and that here there is a group of deputies who are going to put their own interests first . And therefore, it is very possible that in the accusation against the Minister of the Interior, instead of studying the antecedents, they are guided by their own interests, by trying to maintain some kind of perk in their agreements with the Government ”, he criticized.
In that line, the Deputy of the Democratic Revolution, Jorge Brito, showed his concern at the vote on the accusatory libel against Minister Pérez.
“It is necessary that those parties that call themselves opposition take charge of their votes in the National Congress, because those votes are the ones that end up approving many of the projects or ideas that go in the opposite direction of what the national climate with an abuse and police violence that we must stop, “he said.
The deputy, one of the signatories of the accusation, is emphatic in pointing out that the mistakes that occurred in the case of the former Minister of Health should not be repeated.
“We have the constitutional accusation against Minister Pérez, and we hope that this embarrassment will not be repeated. Are the parties in opposition for the ballot in elections or to defend the people in their day-to-day work?”
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