“It is not up to the Government to call for any type of pressure to carry out the reforms, and what motivates it is to reach agreements,” was the response of the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, to the statements of the communist senator, Daniel Núñez, who urged La Moneda to “call for citizen pressure.”
The legislator’s statements generated a deep debate and criticism from the opposition, which immediately associated the legitimate protest with crime.
“From the call made by Senator Núñez, which we fully share, many voices have emerged, mainly from the opposition, to make a caricature and demonize the social demands, which, moreover, have always been present in our country, in the movements of neighborhood associations, among students, with protest, democratic, and social justice content,” said the regional secretary of the PC, Elizabeth Ferrada.
In the current scenario, he added, “where right-wing parliamentarians have prevented the advancement of reforms that benefit workers, it is social justice that we raise our voices for those who experience the precarious needs of society. Therefore, it is natural that they mobilize to demand from parliament a prompt tax law that allows the government to cover the great needs in security, health, education, and housing. It is only fair that citizens demand a solidarity pension reform that allows the terrible pensions to be improved. Improve today and not in forty more years. “So, why does the right criminalize citizen outcry?” he stated, adding that this call to mobilize “should not generate problems with the government; on the contrary, incorporating popular outcry into the national debate is necessary at the current time.” , he asserted.
From RD Ñuble, its regional coordinator, Katterina Osorio, expressed that “evidently, from the government, no one wants scenes or situations of violence to be generated, much less ones in which people may be at risk, because, unfortunately, violent expressions are always They lead to events that we all later regret. But personally, I urge the right to be honest, to generate a self-evaluation, and not to be frightened because there is a call to protest or demonstrate based on situations that affect such basic rights in a person’s daily life,” held.
According to the leader, “it is sad and definitely much more violent that the right hinders the possibility of changing or modifying the current pension system. The proposal has been raised, and what the right has repeatedly done is violate each of the pensioners, the retirees of Chile by keeping them in situations of literal poverty,” she stated.
Osorio stated that “the right also has to understand that they are going to go down in history with this way of doing politics, with this way of trying to advance their specific plans or projects. People are definitely not stupid, people realize and know that in this situation there has been no progress, because they do not want progress to be generated in President Boric’s government. We are all watching, we are observing them, that is what the media, the press, social networks are for. Nowadays people are not the same as before, and even in this specific segment, which are the elderly, who are mostly affected by the violent, but violent obstruction that the right does in advancing these laws. that would generate direct changes and benefits for them, are known. Senator Núñez is calling for the demonstration, he is not calling for violence,” he stated.
“PC Strategy”
From the opposition, they were critical of the call made by Senator Núñez.
“I am not surprised by this new call from the Communist Party, which has remained with one foot on the street and the other in the government, generating a permanent problem for a government that long ago lost its compass on how to govern. The PC and the Frente Amplio have caused great damage to Chile in recent years, promoting political instability, social chaos, and economic decline. But fortunately the Constitutional process demonstrated that Chileans reject communist ideology, and that what we truly need is to strengthen public security and give the country back its ability to grow and generate employment,” said UDI senator Gustavo Sanhueza. He added that “we have stated that it is in Congress where we should discuss the convenience or not of different public policies, and we hope that in that democratic space we will seek the best for Chile.”
From RN, the deputy, Frank Sauerbaum, stated that “this is a strategy that the Communist Party has whenever it belongs to a government, it has one foot inside the government, and one foot outside, precisely because the Communist Party grows in the manifestation, grows in the protest and decreases when it is within the institutions. This is part of what they are, it is part of the manual of being a communist, and the government should have already anticipated it, but it is evident that the Communist Party is going to seek to distance itself from the government, because it is a poorly evaluated government, it is a government that “It has a very low level of support, and obviously it is going to try to get on the side of the citizens who are dissatisfied,” he said.
Sauerbaum said he regretted the situation, “because it speaks very poorly of the loyalty that a governing party must have, but it does not surprise me, because we know the actions of the Communist Party. Now, it is evident that the Communist Party has also influenced the lack of agreements, the Communist Party has not allowed it to go beyond what they consider pertinent, because for them it is everything, any level of conversation with the opposition is a renounces what they want, and well, they distinguish themselves for being totalitarian, they distinguish themselves for being not very tolerant, and therefore, they are going to try to have the government questioned in the last two years that it has left, two electoral years. beyond what a governing party should have accepted. I believe that their attitude prevents understanding, because it is permanently understood through violence, through demonstrations, and not through democratic institutions, such as the national congress itself,” he stated.
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