The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, and the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, Vlado Mirosevic (PL) and Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI), respectively, they finalized the signing of an agreement to promote 31 security projects.
From the headquarters of the Santiago Congress, Coloma explained that The treaty consists of four stages. In the first, the initiatives that are ready to be dispatched will be prioritized; which will be followed by two agendas, of 75 days and 150 days, to end in proposals “that have to be regulated before the end of the year”mentioning as an example “private security or suprateritorial prosecutor’s office”
“We assign tremendous relevance to this legislative fast track. Our commitment is to put the urgency, the speeds, and search in each of these projects that have their own processing, the scenarios of understanding so that the country can feel that, definitively, security begins to leave our territory”, indicated the president of the Upper House.
Coloma stressed that “here, what we are doing is committing ourselves. You have to face these issues, and although sometimes you can be criticized, you have to be quick and more urgent in this type of legislation. And for this reason, we have agreed on these 31 projects that are going to be specially considered”
For his part, Mirosevic pointed to a “issue of priorities”given that “In both Chambers, there are many parallel initiatives to take charge of the security issue. What had to be done was order and prioritize them.”
“This is going to mean that we have to call extraordinary sessions, where Congress is going to have to vote more laws and faster. There is an absolute willingness on our part for this to be the case, for this agenda to move forward as soon as possible. Because we feel that people have every right to demand that we stop fighting, and take quick action to confront crime,” he added.
Mirosevic highlighted some projects, such as the law on economic crimes; the one that typifies the crime of possession of technological elements in prisons; and the law on financial intelligence.
“We hope that all the political forces, from left to right, get behind this prioritization, and that we approve the laws that the country is waiting for as soon as possible,” he said.
Meanwhile, Tohá stressed that “It is an agreement between the Executive and the Legislative, but also between the ruling party and the opposition”, asserting that “it proves that we understand that it is necessary to collaborate, build unity to face this challenge that we face with the problem of violent crime, which today It is present in many territories and requires extraordinary efforts”.
He assured that there will be “an extraordinary effort to add sessions, to put legislative urgency, to get them out in the times that we are committing ourselves to.”
The minister held that they are “adopting before the country a first-person commitment as State authorities, to put all our abilities to find solutions to any disagreements that may exist. To build, through dialogue, solutions to these disagreements, so that they are not an excuse for these projects to be paralyzed”.
In particular, the Secretary of State mentioned the Ministry of Public Security. “Something that we have been talking regarding for many years. Now, in 150 days, we are committing to Congress dispatching it, and making every effort to dispatch a very good project”, she assessed.
Finally, when asked regarding the draft regulation on the use of force, Tohá replied that “it is incorporated”, although she remarked that “this does not mean that the differences have ended, but we are going to work hard to resolve them and that the project comes out ”.
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