Regarding the shortcomings detected by the Comptroller General of the Republic in the delivery of grace pensions granted by the State to victims of the social outbreak of 2019, the senator Matias Walker (Democrats) noted in The Cooperative Journal that «politically someone has to take responsibility for this mess«.
The entity’s report revealed that 19 files did not present medical records, as well as 58 of the 419 beneficiaries have criminal records for convictions for crimes such as fraud, drug trafficking, production of material for the sexual exploitation of minors, sexual abuse, robbery with violence. , homicide or domestic violence, among others.
Along these lines, Senator Walker indicated that «any grace pension that has been granted irregularly, without the background, without medical certificates, has to be revoked«.
However, he went further, and highlighted that «someone has to take political responsibility. When we questioned the pardons granted to people who had a record of violent crimes during the social outbreak, the Minister of Justice, Marcela Ríos, ended up resigning and here no one assumes political responsibility. And that is very complex, because the ministers are fuses for the President of the Republic.»
Furthermore, he maintained that the Government «has to comply with what the Comptroller’s Office demands, which is make summaries, determine administrative responsibilities«, and that the Executive has to stop blaming the previous government, since this administration «has had very bad behavior, absolutely inconsistent behavior.»
This situation, according to the former deputy, It is a «provocation» and an «offense» to the real victims of human rights violations, who, for example, have real eye trauma.
«That’s why pensions have to be revoked, but politically someone has to take responsibility for this mess«, hill.
THE VERSUS BETWEEN IBÁÑEZ AND RINCÓN
Senator Walker once again referred to the situation that keeps the ruling party at odds with Democrats. During the vote on the pension reform in the Lower House, the deputy Diego Ibanezwho is also president of Social Convergence – the party of President Gabriel Boric -, called on Democratic parliamentarians to «not let themselves be enlightened by the senator Ximena Rinconformer director of AFP Provida».
[📻] Walker: Deputy Ibáñez, as a result of his childishness, lost the opportunity to apologize to Ximena Rincón; He is so arrogant that he didn’t do it. But neither he nor Convergencia Social are in the Senate and there is a representative there who understands that agreements must be built…
— Cooperative (@Cooperative) January 26, 2024
«Deputy Ibáñez, like many people from the Frente Amplio, always speaks from an adversarial logic, talking about enemies. But he has a special responsibility, because he is president of the party of the President of the Republic. So, It is unusual and inexplicable thatAfter Democrats announce their vote in favor of the idea of legislating so that the project can continue to be discussed in the Senate, this gratuitous attack on the president of the party«Walker commented.
«It is an unfair, gratuitous, unfair criticism.because it is effectively the president of the party that is giving the votes for the project to pass to the Senate,» he added.
Although Democrats demanded a public apology from Ibáñez, he avoided referring to the facts.