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May 12, 11:33 a.m. and the deputy Diego Ibáñez (Social Convergence) He published a thread on Twitter that spoke of the contributions of natural persons to parliamentarians on the campaign trail.
One of the points that most caught the attention in social networks was that the parliamentarian He referred to those who head the list of those who receive the most contributions such as # BancadaSúperRicos, one who leads Diego Schalper of National Renewal, Jorge Alessandri and Guillermo Ramírez of the UDI and the deputy Francisco Undurraga of Evópoli.
Of the 10 deputies with the most contributions from people, ALL belong to ChileVamos (and are men son). Only Schalper received 74 million, equivalent to 66% of the sum of ALL the contributions of people received by the incoming FA bench. Are the #BancadaSuperRicos? 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/UnKmGa4gy3
– Diego Ibáñez Cotroneo #Apruebo (@diego_ibanezc) May 12, 2020
What is # BancadaSúperRicos ”?
What was the deputy for District 6 referring to with this allusion? In conversation with CHV NewsIbáñez says that a systematization of the public data of the Electoral Service was carried out with campaign contributions and, according to their research, the 10 deputies with the highest amount of contributions from people belong to Chile Vamos, they are all men and reflect considerable income inequality.
“There is a large concentration of private contributions in parliamentary campaigns of Chile Vamos and that suggests to us that there are ‘super rich’ that today have preferred candidates and to which they deposit contributions that no other Chilean could deposit, because nobody has that volume of income, ”says deputy Ibáñez.
The Social Convergence parliamentarian affirms that his National Renovation peer, Diego Schalper, for example, received about $ 74 million, which is equivalent to 66% of the sum of all the contributions of people received by the Frente Amplio caucus.
Something that is also confirmed by the deputy and president of the Democratic Revolution (RD), Catalina Pérez, saying that “When only Schalper receives the equivalent of 66% of the sum of all the contributions it receives, for example, the Broad Front, I believe that the term # BancadaSúperRicos is quite accurate“
For the RD leader, “what comes to light here is to what interests do parliamentarians respond? What interests do the parties respond to? and without a doubt what we see here is that there are some parties or parliamentarians that respond to the interests of the super rich in our country“He maintains.
A controversy that comes right after another exploded inside the Democratic Revolution, after the deputy Renato Garín published also through social networks, that Giorgio Jackson does not donate a part of his parliamentary diet, but he gives it to his party.
On that occasion, Deputy Jackson assured in Cooperative Radio that “I never outlined that he was doing charity or that he was Father Hurtado” and emphasized that “I feel very proud, I would do it a thousand times more“
Asked about it, Catalina Pérez assures that the topic “is closed, it is clarified, investigate everything you want, we have nothing to hide“
“It is not consistent with reality, one could invent a thousand nicknames”
One of those mentioned by the deputy Diego Ibáñez as belonging to this “super rich bank “is Javier Macaya. The parliamentarian appears in position number 6, after, for example, Francisco Undurraga and Luis Pardo, receiving a personal contribution from more than $ 42 million from the private sector.
Among the contributors mentioned by the Social Convergence parliamentarian who donated money to his UDI counterpart are the retail businessman Nicolás Ibáñez Scott, with an amount of $ 3 million, Juan Eduardo Ibáñez, with $ 4 million, and the stock market entrepreneur Fernando Tisné, with $ 8 million.
And who do the Super Rich choose to finance? Here are the 4 largest contributors to the ChileVamos applications and their preferred applications. #BancadaSuperRicos 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/SJfla2Qz4N
– Diego Ibáñez Cotroneo #Apruebo (@diego_ibanezc) May 12, 2020
For Javier Macaya all this is the result of the problem of the Democratic Revolution and the donations of Giorgio Jackson.
“They had a speech by young people who came to renew politics and this whole problem is generated by the issue of donations. They try to collect information that is public, which is information from 3 or 4 years ago, from campaigns, which is part of what is the legal financing of politics. It seems to me that it is falling into a theory of a tie, which does even more harm to the cause that they have tried to defend”, Affirms the parliamentarian.
For the UDI deputy, that this issue has been brought to the fore is purely to try to divert attention, something in which they seem to agree in National Renewal, where we tried to talk with some of the aforementioned parliamentarians, but the answer came from the deputy caucus, Karin Luck.
Luck affirms that “what Deputy Ibáñez is doing is trying to tie a situation that is currently complicating the DR. This is totally in bad faith, because nothing was done here that does not go under the law and all this is regulated by the electoral spending law and was duly surrendered in the Servel ”, he assured.
As for National Renewal, there are three parliamentarians mentioned. Diego Schalper who leads this list, Luis Pardo who appears in fifth position and Francisco Eguigurren who is in seventh place.
“Deputy Ibáñez is trying to divert attention from what is happening to them. They lied to the citizens saying that they donated, but to their own account, to ‘Fundación Mi Partido, to‘ Fundación Mi Campaña ’. Here there is no irregular walk, which did the deputies of National Renewal and those who have paid electoral expenses and reserved expenses ”, ends Luck.
Regarding the name of “super rich bank”, Macaya assures that “it is not consistent with reality. One could invent a thousand nicknames, a thousand names: the bank of super donations or super liars, also, because ultimately that is what they did during these years ”.
The proposal of the deputy Ibáñez
In the midst of his onslaught against the # BancadaSúperRicos, the deputy of Social Convergence assures that he is working on a bill to reduce the contribution of private individuals to electoral campaigns. The initiative, to which he is finalizing details, is still being discussed with the other members of the opposition.
“Private contributions are legitimate and contributions to parties from the State are also legitimate. The problem is not the existence of these contributions, but the amount and particularly what is the limit of private contributions“Says Ibáñez.
That is why he says he is working on some lines: limiting the total spending given to each public office, which could be up to 70% less depending on the territory and reducing the contribution of private ones, among others. On this point, Ibáñez reflects: “Who in Chile can give $ 9 million to a candidacy or $ 57 million, which is the legal limit to distribute them in different candidacies of deputies or senators? Only the super rich, those who have money left over to invest in politics. And there we propose a substantial reduction that we are discussing“
A reduction that could go along the lines of only contributing $ 1 million or a maximum of $ 1.5 million per deputy, for example, or limiting the number of candidates to which the private can contribute.
A project that was also joined by the Democratic Revolution. “I think it has to do with the possibilities that everyone can enter the exercise of politics on equal terms and that it does not depend on the amount of silver you have in your pocket, “said its president, the deputy Catalina Pérez.
However, the initiative does not convince everyone. “It is ridiculous, because they were in parliament when company contributions were banned, contributions were made only by natural persons and were public and we did so and it is the reason why they have that information. I prefer that to having an obscurantism to how their campaigns were financed, “says the deputy Macaya.
As for the amount to be reduced in the contribution of private individuals, for the UDI deputy the figure is already low: “It is quite low and donations from legal entities are prohibited. That they try to revive a legislative idea, when this topic was widely debated in relation to the cases of policy financing, it seems to me that it is to seek to cover the sun with a finger and justify their own misconduct“Ends.
“The question is: who can afford that and who do they finance? And I think that, If the deputy thinks that there is nothing to regulate here, he does not realize the tremendous inequality that exists so that everyone can access representation positions and not only those who are financed by the richest in this country.“Concludes the leader of Democratic revolution.
Other alternatives
Claudio Fuentes, professor at the School of Political Science of the Diego Portales University and member of the 2015 Anti-Corruption Presidential Advisory Council, ensures that the problem in our country is given by inequality and the high concentration of wealth in a few and that this has an effect on who and who is financed in the campaigns.
It raises two options. One, that the electoral campaigns are financed with State resourcesIn other words, the private contribution is prohibited. And the other alternative, that those who want to contribute do so to a ‘blind fund ’and that it be distributed in relation to the criteria of the last established vote, according to the voting pattern obtained in the election.
“Those would be two systems: state electoral financing or financing through a blind bag that could help disconnect the strong influence of a few financiers from the Chilean political system”, Assures the academic of the Diego Portales University.
Furthermore, it states that “the other solution is to reduce the amounts of the limits and expand financing options, for example Free public transportation on Election Day, state radio announcementsAs with the strip, that reduces the cost of the campaigns and reduces the pressure to seek financing. “
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