Parliamentarians for Ñuble questioned the current authorities for ruling out the expansion of the Calles sin Violencia program to other areas, such as Chillán Viejo, for which they called on the presidential delegate to “convey the feeling of abandonment that exists in the region.”
After the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, ruled out extending the “Streets without Violence” plan to other communes in the country, arguing the lack of resources, the deputies of the UDI Bench representing Ñuble, Cristóbal Martínez and Marta Bravo, accused the current authorities to maintain an attitude of “abandonment” with the rest of the country’s regions, especially the most rural ones, assuring that “unfortunately, this turned out to be the most centralist government of all.”
They recalled that at the beginning of this week they officiated with the Executive to take into consideration other communes in the area, including Chillán Viejo, where a series of violent events have occurred in recent weeks.
However, after the authorities refused, representatives Martínez and Bravo expressed their annoyance with the decision, noting that “it seems that the only alternative for our region to be taken into account is that the acts of violence and blood, when in reality the Government should be concerned that we do not lose that tranquility and security that has always characterized Ñuble, but that has been falling in recent years.
“Once again, the current administration acts under a centralist gaze, believing that security problems are only rooted in Santiago, ignoring the reality that millions of families live in the rest of the country. This was supposed to be a regionalist, decentralizing government, which was not going to abandon the communes, but it turned out to be the most centralist of all, once again harming the country’s rural regions,” both legislators criticized.
Even Martínez and Bravo assured that “if the problem is the lack of resources, the Government should immediately suspend all transfers of public funds to foundations linked to their political parties,” adding that “there are more than $14 billion that would have been disappointed and that perfectly would have served to extend this plan to other communes beyond Santiago”.
The parliamentarians for the 19th District summoned the presidential delegate of Ñuble, Gabriel Pradenas, to extend this annoyance to the central authorities, warning that “the highest representative of the Government in our region has the obligation to adopt a much more proactive attitude and transmit the serious feeling of abandonment that we feel in our area”.
“What we hope is that the presidential delegate will side with all the residents of Ñuble, the merchants and the workers, who increasingly see how crime and blood crimes become a constant in our region,” insisted the deputies Martínez and Bravo.
