The deputy for District 16 and member of the Education Committee, Eduardo Cornejo (UDI), filed a complaint with the SEC, after authorities reported that there were still 23,382 homes with their electricity supply interrupted in O’Higgins.
The parliamentarian described the delay in restoring service by the companies as “absolutely unacceptable and unjustified,” which even led to more than ten municipalities in the region having to suspend classes in educational establishments due to power cuts.
For the same reason, Deputy Cornejo – together with the rest of the members of the UDI Party – filed a formal complaint with the SEC, requesting that proceedings be initiated against the electric companies in view of the massive and extensive power outages that were recorded, in order to determine different compensations and indemnities for those who have been most affected.
“What is happening in our region and in a large part of the country is absolutely unacceptable and unjustifiable. No frontal system, no matter how intense it may have been, should cause this level of damage to the territory. It has been more than 72 hours since the storm and there are still more than 23 thousand homes with interrupted service in O’Higgins. And we are not only talking about families with children or elderly people, but also homes with electro-dependent patients, Rural Drinking Water Committees (APR), entrepreneurs and many commercial premises, which often lose all their merchandise and appliances, without anyone responding to them,” questioned the UDI parliamentarian.
But in addition to the complaint he filed this morning, the representative of O’Higgins also announced that during this week he will request that the Ministers of Energy and Education, Diego Pardow and Nicolás Cataldo, be summoned to Congress to give an account of the serious situation affecting the country and how they will seek to have the classes that were suspended fully restored.
At the same time, Cornejo will also request that the electricity companies involved be summoned, as well as government representatives, not only to determine the responsibilities that exist, but also to demand that measures be adopted in the future.
“We are going to take all the actions within our reach, both judicial and political, to determine all responsibilities that exist and to effectively compensate the thousands of people who have been affected. Enough of the electricity companies and the authorities themselves washing their hands, because every year the same story is repeated and we have never seen, so far, any measure taken in this regard,” reiterated Deputy Cornejo.
#Deputy #Eduardo #Cornejo #files #complaint #SEC #extensive #power #outages
