[Politics] UDI asks deputy Hertz for censorship and accuses her of refusing to officiate at the Foreign Ministry after controversy with her son

[FNX Magokiler]

The deputies of the UDI that make up the Foreign Relations Commission of the Lower House, Cristián Labbé and Cristhian Moreira, presented this afternoon a motion of censure against the president of said instance, Carmen Hertz (PC), this in the middle of the controversy over the appointment of his son Germán Berger Hertz as cultural attaché in Spain. The parliamentarians accused the deputy of refusing to put to the vote an ex officio request from the parliamentarians to Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola, asking her to explain the administrative error that the Chilean consul in Barcelona warned about in the appointment of the cultural attaché.

The former director of Secom, would have communicated with the Chilean consul in Barcelona, Jaime Ferraz, to let him know that he would establish himself in that city to exercise his position and not in Madrid. Given this, through a letter, Ferraz would have warned the authorities of the Foreign Ministry that Berger's destination could be a problem since "the Catalan independence movement can use that argument to benefit its political cause, which is not exactly consistent with the interests of our foreign policy". The union legislators assured that during the session deputy Hertz refused to take unanimity to send said official letter, also preventing the request from being put to a vote, as established by the Regulations of the Chamber of Deputies. For the same reason, they decided to censor the president of the instance, whose motion must be voted on during the next week. For this reason, Labbé and Moreira expressed that "we have the power to officiate and invite government authorities, so that they explain to us precisely about all these problems they have in terms of foreign policy (in other countries such as Argentina and Brazil). However, However, and in an unfair manner, the president of the commission refused to do so and, therefore, we proceeded to request its censorship".

 

 

Along these lines, the trade union parliamentarians detailed that once they presented said motion, only then did Deputy Hertz decide to put the aforementioned letter to a vote, which was ultimately rejected by the majority of the members, although it was approved -with the vote in against the president- invite Foreign Minister Urrejola to refer precisely to the Berger Hertz case. "Deputy Hertz lost all objectivity, impartiality and equanimity as president of the Foreign Relations Committee, because she acted in an absolutely arbitrary manner in the face of a legitimate request that we made as parliamentarians. She, as a mother, has every right to defend the appointment of her son in a public position, but for that he had to disqualify himself from the discussion and he didn't," insisted Labbé and Moreira. The deputy of RN Catalina Del Real reminded the president of the commission that the instance "this session is being broadcast on television and is being seen by all Chileans. Therefore, you are doing yourself a disservice by to be defending his son in this institution and denying us the right for someone from the Foreign Ministry to come and explain to us". "This was news that came out in the press, which we read in the press and therefore, we have every right that someone from the chancellery comes to explain to us, nothing more than that; what this commission is asking for. I think it is a request that you should accept it and it should also be disabled," intervened Del Real.

 

 

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