After finalizing a new National Committee for Disaster Risk Management (Cogrid) within the framework of the frontal system that affects the central area of the country, the minister(s) of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, He referred to the criticism that has arisen from the opposition to the tour that the President Gabriel Boric for Europe.
Various right-wing parliamentarians have requested that the President suspend his tour and return to the country, at a time when the same head of state declared a state of catastrophe between Coquimbo and Ñuble. Among the voices calling for Boric’s return is also the former presidential standard-bearer of the Republican Party, José Antonio Kast.
In this context, Monsalve stated that, in his opinion, “If there is something that harms emergencies, it is opportunism and dispute.”
“The President has said it, I want to say it again, what the country needs when there is an emergencywhen there are our compatriots who are being affected, it is the unity of public institutions and authorities to act with opportunity,” he indicated.
Along these lines, he defended the instructions that the President has given to his cabinet from the European continent.
“What the President has guaranteed is that the State acts with opportunity. Everyone has seen the government deployed. “The President instructed the deployment of the government and there are ministers in all regions,” held.
Among the deployments of the Executive, the minister pointed out that he was in the Bío Bío Region, where he held a cogrid in Carampangue, in the commune of Arauco. Likewise, he highlighted that the Vice President Carolina Tohá It is in Curanilahue, an area that, according to Senapred reports, has been the most affected by the frontal system.
“The President is under control of the situation and is monitoring her. I think that is what matters to people,” Monsalve stated.
