The new table of the Chamber of Deputies, which presides Karol Cariolanext to Gaspar Rivas (vice president) and Eric Aedo (second vice president), coordinated with the heads of the 22 benches of the ruling party and the opposition, -as he announced The counter– That this Monday and Tuesday legislative work be urgently resumed to carry out the Regulation on the Use of Force (RUF) and the new intelligence law.
After several in-person conversations in Cañete and through Zoom, the legislators agreed to resume the sessions and postponed the district week, to advance in an extraordinary way the indications of both motions of law, due to the shock over the murder of the three police officers in the province of Arauco, in the Bío Bío Region.
It is worth remembering that last February, after the murder of two merchants who were assaulted by individuals belonging to the Aragua Train, in Malloa, President Boric summoned the National Security Council (Cosena) and different parliamentarians expressed the opinion that the vacations of the congressmen, in order to vote again on both the RUF law and the intelligence law, but not only were there congressmen who refused to return, but they also did so with the commitment to carry out said projects in March, which obviously did not happen. .
Now, the idea of the Chamber and the Executive table is that the Security and Defense commissions of the Chamber of Deputies discuss the intelligence law and that the united Constitution and Security commissions vote on the indications of the Rules of Use of the Fuerza (RUF) tomorrow, Monday, at 3 p.m., and on Tuesday from 10 a.m., until fully dispatched, at the former National Congress in Santiago.
“By unanimous decision of the parliamentary committees of all political sectors of the chamber, the district work week will be interrupted. As of Monday, the United Security and Constitution commissions begin to work to advance the Rules for the Use of Force and the Defense commission will also legislate to process the intelligence law,” Cariola wrote in his X account.
“It is a very good measure, but they are undoubtedly late because the issue of security, of confronting organized crime, delinquency, and terrorism that operates here, has become a political issue that has greatly damaged the country. I believe the RUF is the most urgent project that we need today to give certainty to the Carabineros and the Armed Forces that are deployed in the provinces of Arauco and Bio Bío, and in La Araucanía. There have already been many bickering, This is what needs to be approved. We hope they will vote in the room on Thursday,” assessed the vice president of the Chamber, Eric Aedo (DC) in conversation with The counter.
Although the ruling party and the opposition maintain significant differences in the nomenclatures of the 49-page text of the RUF, several parliamentarians hope to get it approved in each committee and sent to the room, to be voted on next Thursday and Friday.
The PS deputy, Raúl Leiva, of the Constitution commission (which will discuss the RUF) explains that the motion “will be in the commission to be voted on in particular – that is, article by article – and although there are differences, they are not insurmountable. so progress should be made” this week.
Meanwhile, the deputy Andrew Longton (RN) points out that the project had not been tabled in a long time and that the commission was not summoned mainly because the government was presenting “indication after indication, due to the lack of consistency of the text.”
“The RUF project was initially formulated with biases against the police and Armed Forces, based on the fact that legitimate force was abused, which had to be regulated, when the logic should be the opposite, the use of force must be regulated. force to protect them and protect the population,” he explained, adding that “now those approaches have been mutating, although the project still has some remnants of that, that it is necessary to vote in the commission according to the majorities, regardless of “The government may lose many votes, but we cannot pass a bill that has ambiguities, because it has an essentially criminal application.”
In the case of the Intelligence Law, both in the ruling party and in the opposition there are more doubts than hopes that it will be passed to the courtroom this week. According to two parliamentarians, it is a very long text, which does not contain all the indications that the government had promised to present three weeks ago.
“It is very good that we are speeding up the pace. I don’t think they will all leave (in two days), but the RUF should leave the room in two days. “There is a lot to discuss,” comments the deputy. Ximena Ossandón (RN).
The representative for Cañete y Arauco has a more critical vision, Karen Medina (PDG): “I hope that the government puts its pants on and puts real urgency to those projects that we have been waiting for for a long time.” Going to legislate now urgently is not going to recover the lives of these people. This could have been done months ago. The president called a COSENA last February. Where are the suggestions from that meeting? Where have you streamlined any processes? “This shows how little commitment this government has to security.”
Medina, along with the deputies Leonidas Romero (Ind-exREP), Eric Aedo (DC) and Clara Sagardia (CS) is one of the parliamentarians from Cañete who demands that the government declare a State of Siege in the area.
“A State of Siege would serve us in the area to speed up the investigation processesto carry out rake operations and search for these cowardly criminals who murdered our three police officers in a macabre event that has never occurred in the history of our country. This is a declaration of war on the State of Chile. We know, we have witnessed, voted for, supported and promoted the State of Exception, which has become a permanent state, to try to have some security in the area. But with this we show that this is insufficient, the government turned a deaf ear (…)”, warns Medina.
