"the government can govern without the need to legislate"

The mayor of Providencia, Evelyn Matthei, made a severe diagnosis of the current situation in Congress amid accusations against the government for what has been described as a "legislative drought".

In an interview with the newspaper La Tercera, the former presidential candidate and former deputy and senator threw his darts before the legislators and badured that the ruling party and the opposition had "lowered the quality "of their work.

"We compare the Congress with what was the first Congress in the year 90, and we see the precariousness, the lack of preparation, the sometimes unpleasant ways. more and more irrelevant, "said the mayor insistently.

Matthei explains that this "irrelevance" is explained by the "disregard" that, in his opinion, provokes the role of parliamentarians in citizenship: "People perceive a lack of seriousness, a lack of weight . There were so many deputies, so much weight. Today, few really stand out. "

The communal leader went further and noted that" the government can govern without the need to legislate, "arguing that" with the folly we are experiencing in this minute, in the House and Senate, where they do not can not agree between them, where they give you the floor and then do not comply, it is quite risky to legislate. "

The economist pointed out that "for now I would try to send as few projects as possible, because the most likely is that you send a horse and that a camel so, "said the former parliamentarian.