The senators of the UDI, José Miguel Durana, Juan Antonio Coloma, Sergio Gahona, Javier Macaya and David Sandoval offered a invoice that modifies regulation 18,700, constitutional natural regulation on well-liked votes and scrutiny, so as to improve the sanctions relevant to the bribery and different felony conduct that includes the participation of felony organizations.
This legislative initiative, which shall be reviewed by the Authorities, Decentralization and Regionalization Fee of the Senate, seeks to fight what the proponents name “vote shopping for and any type of bribery when carried out with the participation of members of felony organizations.”
In concrete phrases, the undertaking proposes imposing a sentence of three years and 1 day to five years in jail (minor jail in its most diploma) and a superb that would attain 6.5 million pesos (50 to 100 UTM) for individuals who , in any well-liked, main or remaining election, requests votes in trade for fee, present, promise of cash or different reward, or incurs in any type of bribery with members of a felony or felony group. It is very important keep in mind that the present regulation establishes that bribery, with out contemplating the participation of felony organizations, carries a minor jail sentence in its medium diploma, a superb of 10 to 50 month-to-month tax items and absolute and perpetual disqualification from holding positions and public features. This final level is maintained within the new movement.
The authors of the undertaking base their proposal by stating that “it’s the responsibility of the State to supply safety and safety to the inhabitants, finishing up all the required actions to ensure the efficient safety of individuals and their property. On this context, in recent times, confronted with a rise in additional violent and arranged crime, rules have been accepted to supply extra fashionable and acceptable authorized instruments to fight new types of crimes and classify new punishable acts,” it’s established within the proposal.
“Clear up” politics
The proposal undoubtedly comes at a posh time for the Ñuble Area, the place three of its mayors (San Ignacio, Ñiquén and Bulnes) have been formalized and are going through numerous precautionary measures following being accused of bribery inside the framework of the investigation of the Present Accounts case.
For the regional president of the UDI, Isabel Troncoso, “it might be fairly good if I want that not solely the individuals who bribe and who take part in felony organizations may very well be convicted, but in addition all of the individuals who bribe. Simply yesterday somebody advised me that there was an impartial candidate who was paying for the signature for sponsorship, so if we’re going to have these sorts of authorities who’re already juggling and doing difficult issues from the beginning, that needs to be sanctioned.”
He added that “this kind of conduct is exactly what individuals criticize in the present day. If the authorities who will not be even authorities but start to deprave the system, it’s as a result of in the long run they’re going to come to a municipality to fill their pockets with cash, and with sources that belong to probably the most weak individuals. I feel that the incapacity of those corrupt individuals needs to be rather more than 5 years, hopefully for all times, as a result of that’s the solely solution to cleanse this nation of all these individuals who put their palms in public sources, and they’re public sources. probably the most weak individuals on this nation.”
In the meantime, from the PPD, its regional president, Yesenia Figueroa, said that “all legislative actions that intention at transparency in public administration and particularly in municipal issues are welcome. We should acknowledge that crimes develop new edges over time, and the laws that punishes them should adapt to those new options, so as to put a cease to anybody who desires to abuse or reap the benefits of loopholes that would permit bribery or crimes at odds with probity.”
From the Frente Amplio, the regional president of Convergencia Social, Francisca Leyton, said: “we fully agree with the spirit of the undertaking and we think regarding that legislating on anti-corruption is crucial, particularly selling transversal agreements between all political sectors to the care and strengthening of democracy. This constitutes good news for the nation and residents in all territories, notably in areas like ours, the place there are circumstances of mayors prosecuted for this matter.”
He added that “in any case, from progressivism and our occasion, we remorse the place of the proper in not eager to elevate banking secrecy, which might permit us to pursue corruption networks with the total power of the regulation in an efficient and preventive method.”
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