Los States of Exception in urban areas They are not the way. That was one of the conclusions reached by the meeting of the National Security Council (Cosena)according to its minutes published this Wednesday.
That idea was supported this day by the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, who pointed out that when reading the minutes it is seen that the powers of the State have the desire to collaborate, but that they have concerns on some issues.
“If one looks closely at the minutes, there is quite a coincidence, because the Carabineros, the general director of the Carabineros (Ricardo Yáñez), the commander in chief of the Army (Javier Iturriaga), propose and say that the deployment of the Armed Forces in densely populated urban areas does not seem advisable. Think of a town and think that that town is surrounded by the military. “That is what both the Carabineros and the Army say, that does not seem convenient to us,” he said, in conversation with radio Cooperative.
Along these lines, he noted that both the Carabineros and the Army welcome the fact that the Armed Forces “take care of a perimeter of facilities or places that are considered relevant to the security of the country.”
Later, he stated that “all the members of Cosena are more in the logic of a critical infrastructure law than in a state of constitutional exception.”
“One could conclude that most of the powers of the State They are not about to use a constitutional state of emergency for reasons of public securitybut they are or agree much more on the need for the country to have a critical infrastructure law that allows the deployment of the Armed Forces, obviously under certain conditions, to collaborate in security tasks,” he stated.
“There is a very transversal view in the powers of the State that the request for a constitutional state of exception in urban areas is not something convenient. And there is also an answer to that request as to whether the constitutional state of exception does not seem convenient to us, but it does seem convenient to us to move quickly in having critical infrastructure capacity, as many countries in the world have,” he concluded.