The senator and president of the Union Democráta Independiente, Javier Macaya, denounced on his Twitter account that he had been attacked outside the party headquarters by Team Patriota, a group led by Francisco “Pancho Malo” Muñoz.
The incident occurred on Saturday followingnoon when Senator I was arriving at the party headquarters on Suecia avenue, in Providencia, aboard your vehicle and with your minor children.
In the place was Francisco Muñoz with his group “Team Patriota”, who began to insulting, hitting the car and shouting slogans once morest the constitutional agreement signed this Monday.
Francisco Muñoz, former leader of the “Garra Blanca”, a brave bar of Colo Colo, responded on his Twitter that he would not have touched the senator’s car.
I never touched car @javiermacaya And I have more evidence for when necessary. You went yourself to take it with the gate of the UDi.
8 million Chileans have NOT given you a mandate in the name of REJECTION, the Citizens won it, not the political parties.#JavierMacayaMiente pic.twitter.com/1jzaknMsSQ— Francisco Muñoz (@FcoMunoz_TP) December 18, 2022
The president of the UDI announced that he will present legal actions. It should be remembered that, in September of this year, the same extreme right group he confronted the senator on the outskirts from Channel 13.
SUPPORT OF THE POLITICAL WORLD TO THE SENATOR
The event had repercussions in the political sphere where the condemnation of the type of actions came from the Senate, the General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile and Macaya’s party colleagues.
“The aggression once morest Senator Macaya and his family is unacceptable. This type of aggression is carried out by those who They don’t believe in democracy and they must be eradicated through an energetic and transversal condemnation”, criticized the president of the Senate, alvaro elizaldewho had already condemned the “squeeze” that was made to Macaya in September.
On the other hand, the deputy for National Renewal Andres Celis summoned the Government and the Senate to present legal actions once morest these groups, in his opinion, “not because Senator Macaya has this position in Congress, but because Mr. ‘Pancho Malo’ does harm to the country“.
“The expression of dissent in this reprehensible and anti-republican way is undemocratic and criminal. Our total solidarity with Senator Macaya” tweeted the Minister of Segpres, Ana Lya Uriarte.
Unacceptable attack on the President of the UDI, Senator Javier Macaya. The expression of dissent in this reprehensible and anti-republican way is undemocratic and criminal. Our total solidarity with Senator Macaya. https://t.co/gnLfFbJdl1
— Ana Lya Uriarte (@AnaLyaUriarteR) December 18, 2022
For his part, Iván Moreira also condemned the action and called for legal action to be initiated, in addition to questioning who finances this group, he tweeted that “this Mr. Muñoz acts with itotal immunity and assaults, threatens, insults permanently inciting hatred. Who finances it?“.
The time has come to initiate legal actions once morest the well-known and convicted murderer “Pancho Malo” today our @javiermacaya ask you from the UDI.
This Mr. Muñoz acts with total impunity and attacks, threatens, insults permanently inciting hatred. Who finances it?— Ivan Moreira Barros (@ivanmoreirab) December 17, 2022
