The Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, defended -in a special session of the Chamber- the Government’s position of not suing the leader of the CAM, Héctor Llaitul, for calling for “organizing armed resistance” against the state of exception in the south of the country.
They asked her to resign, they recommended that she be Minister of Health and they defended her, accusing her of a ‘fantasy of the right‘ with the military presence in Araucanía: This was the special session of the Chamber of Deputies, for the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches.
The meeting was called by the center-right, to refer to the government’s actions due to the statements made by the leader of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator, Héctor Llaitul, when he spoke of organizing ‘armed resistance’ against the State, within the framework of the State of Constitutional Exception of emergency.
The government saw this instance as an opportunity to talk about the Good Living Plan, and following the line of President Gabriel Boric’s sayings: “Our government does not pursue ideas or statements, it pursues crimes”
The Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, who said that one should not fall for the provocations of Llaitul’s sayings, called for a broad agreement with parliament on security.
In the center right there were tense spirits all afternoon. While the Republican Party continues to prepare the Constitutional Accusation against Siches, the deputy of the National Renewal, Miguel Mellado, said that the government lived “in the world of Narnia” and that its “decaffeinated” state of exception does not work.
The Bío Bío UDI deputy, Flor Weisse, had a brief intervention, but it was the most critical moment of the session: The parliamentarian of the 21st district said that the executive thinks that the victims of violence are ‘right-wing fanatics’, and therefore that doesn’t serve them.
Also, He asked Izkia Siches for his resignation.
The ministers of State were present in the room, but absent in the commissions. The defense commissions of the Senate and the chamber had invited them this day to talk about the State of Constitutional Exception, and the regulation of the use of force.
From the government they clarified that the excuses were formally delivered, and that there is full disposition to detail the military deployment next week.
This did not stop the President of the UDI and member of the Senate Defense Commission, Javier Macaya, who listed all the doubts they have pending about the powers of deployment in the area.
The socialist senator of Bío Bío, Gastón Saavedra, recognized that the executive must clarify the functions of the armed forces in detail, and recommended ‘act with prudence’ in the military intervention in the area.
The parliamentarian of the defense commission met this Tuesday with his socialist counterpart, the Defense Minister, Maya Fernández, and after that meeting he spoke with La Radio to point out that the right has an “insatiable character” for military action.
The government made this Tuesday ‘a mea culpa’, but at the state level: Minister Siches said that the budget under-execution of the purchase of land in Araucanía is ‘inexcusable’.
The opposition bloc was left with the feeling that the meeting was useless. They say that the government is ‘co-opted’ by the ideology of the Communist Party, and they do not claim that they have no expectations that in the coming days, the State of Constitutional Exception will be improved.