MEPs Boric and Orsini detail his design and what happened during a meeting with Palma Salamanca | National

The deputies Gabriel Boric and Maite Orsini gave new details on the manner in which they spoke in France with the former leader of the front Ricardo Palma Salamanca as well only on the points raised during the meeting.

According to them, everything began with a "conversation in the hall", in the cafeteria of the Congress with a member of the family of Palma Salamanca.

"It was an informal conversation in the cafeteria of the House, where the opportunity to hold this meeting was presented," the MP explained. On this occasion he was alone, but the invitation had also been addressed to his couple.

Orsini had stated that at that time they had been asked to listen to the context of the asylum claim and the human rights violation of which Palma Salamanca claims to have been a victim in Chile

Once in France, they said, they were at the home of María Paz Santibañez, the former representative, where Silvia Brzovic and Ricardo Palma Salamanca were also present.

Boric reiterated that the meeting lasted half an hour during which, he badured, "we only inform ourselves of the case and we do not perform any acts of management neither in favor nor against, before the French or Chilean authorities. "

Deputy stressed that it was "a conversation about their process, about the asylum request that had been made and about the violation of rights." that I have been clear in my unequivocal condemnation of the violation of human rights and the murder of Jaime Guzmán, I also believe in the right to be heard by someone who says to have been the victim of a violation of his fundamental rights. "

Lobby?

The two parliamentarians defended the fact that the meeting had not violated the lobby law or the ethical rules regarding what Boric argued: "If we had not commented on the meeting with Palma Salamanca before, it is because there was an ongoing judicial process and our intention was not to interfere in it from any point of view .

"There was neither lobby, nor interest management, nor any request from palma salamanca to do any management related to my parliamentary work or otherwise, and Made any public or private management to affect a judicial or administrative process of the Ofpra, "said the parliamentarian.

He also stated that notifica or in advance to the autonomous party of the decision for which In a different situation, we found Orsini, who had to apologize for not have reported "through the corresponding channels".