Loss The representatives of the UDI bench, Felipe Donoso and Juan Manuel Fuenzalida, responded to the public summons served on him this Tuesday morning by The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Toha, After ensuring that “corruption is a national problem that can affect any institution,” he spoke about the so-called “audio case”, adding that “it has affected right-wing sectors.”
In this regard, both MPs described his statements as “inappropriate” and warned that the Secretary of State “does not have the authority to speak on this matter.”
The latter, recalling the accounts’ verdict that Comptroller General of the Republic decided to initiate action against him for possible administrative irregularities committed during his tenure as mayor of Santiago, a fact for which two investigations are still ongoing in the entity.
In detail, Donoso and Fuenzalida mentioned the untimely payment of pension contributions for which current minister Toha would be responsible, which would have generated a debt of approximately $196 million, including fines and interest, in the Municipality of Santiago.
In addition, he is being investigated for misusing $265 million corresponding to preferential school subsidies.
“If there is anyone in the government who does not have the authority to refer corruption cases affecting our country, it is the Minister of the Interior. To this day, the Comptroller’s Office is still conducting an open trial against him for two pending cases, so that tomorrow he is not declared guilty of these cases and he does not have to repent for his statements,” he raged.
“We will always condemn serious acts of corruption that have affected our country, regardless of where they come from, but we will not allow a minister to feel the moral right to call us out as a political constituency when it is he himself who is involved in an investigation into a possible misuse of public resources”, UDI was questioned.
But in addition, the union’s parliamentarians recalled the so-called “Contracts case”, which originated in Antofagasta, linked mainly to a group of Democratic Revolution militants, but which spread to different regional governments in the country, According to what the Public Ministry has said, its fiscal losses currently exceed 3 billion dollars.
For this reason, Donoso and Fuenzalida pointed directly to the Minister of the Interior, since she, in her capacity as head of the cabinet, ensured that “she also had political responsibility for not detecting in time what was being stolen.” State Administration.
“At the same time that Minister Toha tells us that the government does not want to fight with the opposition, she involves the entire authority in a certain court case. This is the level of inconsistency, impudence and desperation that the current authorities maintain,” the UDI legislators concluded.