Paul Carrasco, presidential candidate for Juntos Podemos, at a press conference after the 2021 Debate this Saturday, January 9.
Do you propose the hardening of penalties?
I am extremely happy and I thank Diario EL COMERCIO for the opportunity to give other candidates and us the opportunity to participate with equity. I have not proposed the hardening of penalties in security, what needs to be done is to strengthen a network that coordinate the Police and involve the private security guards, the municipal police in the police security circuits, but also the citizens to take control of the police units in their neighborhoods. Community police and taxi drivers as the eyes of the neighborhoods, we are going to increase a model of social participation and coordination, a great citizen network to corner criminals.
Is it feasible for taxi drivers to contribute to public safety and in what way would they do it?
The point is that we are going to deliver technology cellular pathway to Policeman. We need platformsThere are platforms that communicate directly with the Police, in the same way we think of taxi drivers, they are the eyes of the city, they circulate, they are not going to intervene in the conflict, what they are going to do is report the conflict. Going to communicate with the Police closer, that is the idea, we have to increase the network for information and control, but also the response time in the attack of crime.
Throughout the debate, the word people was repeated a lot, proposals such as hospitals on Facebook or cell phones for security for the neighborhoods, do they become populist proposals or effective actions?
I am a nationalist. I believe fundamentally in the pragmatic proposals that come out of the territory, I have collected this from the territory, that is, from the citizens; therefore, they are clear and concrete proposals. We have to talk about macroeconomics, economic growth, national or territorial GDP, but citizens feel unemployment at home, in their neighborhood, they feel crime at home in their neighborhood, so we have to go on proposing pragmatic things, technology In intervention, we need to design a pragmatic proposal on how to bring health to the home and Juntos Podemos designed the Juntos Hospital in Real Time on Facebook, 13 million Ecuadorians are on Facebook, what more modern than to bring primary health prevention and promotion to the house 365 days via social network? Those are practical solutions that will serve the citizen.
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