“They even took me out of the dining room of the Frente Amplio”: the struggle that uncovered the vote against Paulsen | National



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The opposition began a furious witch and witch hunt after its unexpected defeat in the third attempt to overthrow the table of the Lower House chaired by the RN, Diego Paulsen, in the ruling party they celebrated happily, although only one vote changed a story that seemed already written.

So much so that Paulsen had already announced that he would once again be the candidate of Chile Vamos. But, it was not necessary, the censorship did not prosper and continues.

“On TV, with people; in the votes, with the right, “said deputy Maite Orsini on her Twitter account, who accompanied that phrase with an image in which she appears with her counterpart from the Humanist Party, Pamela Jiles, whom she blames.

Jiles, along with the deputies Florcita Alarcón (PH), Renato Garín (ind ex RD), Félix González (Ecologist) and the socialist Jenny Álvarez abstained from voting in favor of bringing to the table and, in the end, they were passed to the stage as traitors, something that, according to them, is a caricature and is far from reality.

Deputies Garín and González explained to BBCL that what is behind their refusal to join this action is not to support the right, as stated, but rather that they seek to prevent the rest of the opposition parties, from the Broad Front to the DC, from leaving them out of the commissions in the Chamber and that they monopolize them.

What’s more, they both talked about Pamela Jiles as “the bastion” that they want to remove from the esteemed Constitution Commission, due to its preponderance, and according to Garín, the idea is to replace it with the deputy and president of UNIR, Marcelo Díaz, which, he said, they would not allow.

They revealed that, in the prison, they asked for an agreement in writing, to avoid the changes, but that did not materialize.

Given all the above, they preferred to abstain.

For his part, the deputy Marcelo Diaz He assured that Garín’s sayings are false, that he never asked to be part of another commission – he belongs to Culture and Citizen Security – and said that he has as witnesses several opposition leaders who were in a meeting last week, where he gave to know your position.

“They want to justify their vote with the right”Diaz said.

Jiles Bastion

“The Concertación and the Broad Front have done everything wrong. First, those who voted with the right in April were the FA and that is why Paulsen is presiding over the Chamber. Since April they have not reached an agreement and have had censures that they have withdrawn “

González explains that a new board of directors of the Lower House, headed by a DC like Deputy Víctor Torres, would leave room for an adjustment of commissions, which depends on a political agreement and modifying, according to him, the Regulations, which it would be possible under an internal composition in which the opposition is a majority.

“Inside that lower It has been proposed to remove Pamela Jiles from the Constitutional Commission. The new table, in an agreement of the former Concertation, FA and the PC have raised in the background, redistribute power in the commissions. That is delicate “Gonzalez said.

The environmental deputy named the draft laws for the withdrawal of funds from the AFPs, seats for indigenous peoples and other relevant initiatives that have been seen in the Constitution. “It is a strategic commission and they have wanted to get it out of there,” he emphasized.

“They tried to reach an agreement, but were not able to put it in writing, for us it is suspicious. They were not able to give guarantees not to be removed from the commissions where we are. As soon as these guarantees are in place, we can participate, but today those are not there ”, added González.

Also, the Concepción parliamentarian recalled that at least 10 more parliamentarians, from the same opposition, did not come to vote on censorship, so the responsibility does not fall solely on them.

“We are not going to vote for a table that will reduce our space to a minimum expression,” he said.

“FA kicked me out of the dining room”

Deputy Renato Garin He also joined the arguments of his peer from the PEV, but went further and accused the Broad Front of total exclusion.

“The FA erased me from all the coordination chats, they don’t invite me to any meeting, they tell me I’m a former militant and then they ask me for my votes. They even took me out of the dining room of the Frente Amplio in Congress and then they ask me for my votes. They even gave themselves the luxury of reprimanding us in the room, as for example, Miguel Crispi, since I resigned from his party, “he said.

“Nobody asked me how I was going to vote, not even my committee chair, Alejandra Sepúlveda. At the last minute I asked Pamela Jiles what she was going to do, she told me she was going to abstain and, well, I abstained too. That was. They believe that we have an operation with the government, that is false, “he added.

What’s more, Garín also points to an operation, but from the opposition parties.

“Unfortunately what has happened is that deputies like Marcelo Díaz and others have sought to use commissions as electoral platforms. These interests are revealed in the Constitution committee, where they have tried to move the PH quota, which is held by the deputy Pamela Jiles ”, he explained.

Garín assured that the accusation of voting for the right was taken with humor, since he maintained that Pamela Jiles, Félix González and he lead instances in which their opposition role is evident.

“It was they, especially the FA, who voted for the Anti-Barrier Law, they repented and they went out to ask forgiveness as parish acolytes, they have been the ones who fractured the opposition and they have been the ones who had an electoral failure on Sunday, especially the DR, with Sebastián Depolo, who has a resounding failure, “he said.

“To save themselves they come on Tuesday with something and take some commissions, the presidencies, like Miguel Crispi in Health. As we did not give him the go, we became his enemies, “he added.

The independent parliamentarian also pointed darts at the ten deputies who did not show up to vote. “The focus is on us, that we did not want to support an injustice against Paulsen, but not on Patricio Rosas, for example, president of UNIR, who sits next to Marcelo Díaz, ”Garín closed.

Is a lie

Before the accusations of Garín and González, the deputy Marcelo Diaz told BBCL that everything is false.

“The only explanation for such an absurd lie is that they cannot find a way to justify their vote in favor of the right,” said Díaz.

“It is absolutely false. There are two elements that prove it categorically and undeniably. The agreement signed by the heads of the committee in which Convergencia Social resigned the chairmanship of the Constitution commission and at the meeting last week of different party groups, to which I went and in which Rocafull, Víctor was present Torres, Daniel Verdessi, Raúl Soto, Camila Vallejo, that is to say, there are many witnesses, I expressly said that I resigned from having a second commission ”, added the president.

“They are lying, My statement that I gave up having a second commission was public before all the bank chiefs, so it is a lie, it is false and who has to clarify is that lie. Unlike what they point out, there is no proof because it is a lie, ”Díaz closed.

Paulsen remains in the presidency. Nobody wanted to run because the opposition had votes “to spare” to win, they divided and lost. The DC led two attempts to censure the board, but, so far, They have failed.



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