The deputy Maite Orsini (Democratic Revolution) admitted that the ruling party had to adapt the original promises of its program to new citizen demands for greater security.
«I thought that the heart of this Government was going to be in social rights. However, all the attention has been around security, because people have raised that as the most important thing,» said the Broad Front parliamentarian in an interview with Third.
According to Orsini, «We could not foresee that in these two years the center of the political discussion was going to be on security and not on pensions.»
«I would not have imagined that the Government was going to focus its political actions on that agenda, because two years ago in the streets people were asking for something else. People’s priorities apparently changed, and we must attend to what people are asking,» he said.
In that sense, a paradox stood out: «The great legacy of this Government is going to be the Ministry of Security.»
The RD deputy acknowledged that That turn has to do with the entry of Democratic Socialism into the heart of the Executive: «Yes, I cannot deny the obvious. We are a Government alliance in which we agree on most of the relevant issues on the agenda, but in terms of security we have differences between Approve Dignity and Democratic Socialism.»
«It’s not that there are differences in everything,» he added: «For example, in the Ministry of Security we are all in good agreement, in RUF. In the Naín-Retamal Law we had differences, in the fuel transportation law. Those points The difference was noticeable when the person carrying the security agenda was a member of Democratic Socialism or not, as was the previous Minister of the Interior, who was a member of our sector.
Asked if the Frente Amplio in Congress has accompanied La Moneda’s turn in these matters, Orsini stated that «no», before adding that «we were going to put a red line and we did, but not Democratic Socialism. We have been very consistent in the Frente Amplio with what we have proposed from the previous Government. In Congress, I think the FA has remained coherent with its basic idea, I don’t think there has been such a turn, not like that in the Executive.»