The interior minister, Rodrigo Delgadoconfirmed that the Government will continue requesting extensions of the state of constitutional exception that governs the South Macrozone until the end of his term, on March 11, and assured that It will be the decision of the administration of the President-elect, Gabriel Boric, to do “whatever it deems appropriate” to confront the violence. in the zone.
As stated by Mercury Online, the head of the Interior ruled out declaring a state of siege in the territory despite the requests made by parliamentarians: “The state of the siege as we said at the time when there were also people who requested it, it is not feasible for us to implement it, except in the time that remains between now and March 11. But yes, we are going to continue requesting the constitutional state of exception with respect to being able to provide security.”
Facts in Carahue
The Secretary of State also referred to what happened last Friday in Carahue and maintained that “Unfortunately, we see that it is repeated, that on a road two family-related people are leaving their house, they park the car on the berm to be able to close the gate and a vehicle passes and they are shot. Apparently that could also be related to a reckoning, just like the first case (where he died a worker of a forestry company in the same locality).
Along the same lines, Minister Delgado stressed that “the state of emergency has achieved important objectives and we as we have said we never promised zero violence, because we know the complexity of the South Macrozone and surely we will continue to request the state of exception until March 11“.
Moreover, he detailed that to date 118 people have been detained in the four provinces under the state of emergency: Biobío, Arauco, Malleco and Cautín.
In addition, he pointed out that “the elected government has declared on more than one occasion that they plan not to renew the state of emergencyn, it is a faculty of them. We as a government believe that it has been an important strategy to implement, but in this regard each government has its definitions and they of course As of March 11, they can take the one they deem appropriate.”
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