The presidency of Ricardo Cifuentes (DC) in the Lower House is coming to an endsince, to comply with the administrative agreements signed between official parties with the Christian Democrats, Democrats, the People’s Party and independent parliamentarians, On March 11, he must step aside.
The Communist Party (PC) is in charge of taking the baton, as agreed, the names of Luis Cuello and Karol Cariola being the most prominent to assume the new period as leader of the Chamber. However, the opposition once again puts the PC’s assumption in check, as happened last year when they had to agree with the DC.
Democrats and the PDG have been the parties that have already have expressed their concerns so that the PC takes the lead, while from the benches of Chile Vamos They are calling to “reevaluate” support for the Communist Party.
This was commented by the head of the UDI bench, Juan Antonio Coloma, along with the deputy heads Henry Leal and Natalia Romero. Although the parliamentarians indicated that this is not an “anti-communist” position, they warned that all the security projects that are pending – and that were agreed with the Government almost a year ago – would remain on the “freezer” if they the Communist Party (PC) assumes the presidency of the Lower House.
In Chile Vamos they argue that The scenario is different from when said agreement was signed. Unionists maintain that due to denial by the PC to hold special sessions in Congress to address the kidnapping and subsequent homicide of the former Venezuelan military officer, Ronald Ojeda, who was known to be an opponent of the government of Nicolás Maduro, is that they would be there to reassess the agreement with the PC.
Along these lines, the legislators recalled the occasions in which the Communist Party and the Broad Front have opposed different security projects. “It is enough to review what the legislative behavior of the PC has been in most of the security projects that we have processed in recent times, to realize that if they manage to assume the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies They are going to send to the freezer any initiative that aims to confront this wave of crime and delinquency that we are experiencing“, they stated.
Among the projects that the PC opposed are the “Naín-Retamal Law”; the laws of usurpations and migrations; renovations to States of Exception in the south; among others.