The resignation of Interior Minister Victor Perez continues to be in Chile’s limelight, with analysts pointing to it as a result of a government crisis that continues without a solution and is getting worse.
Perez resigned on Tuesday after being temporarily dismissed from his post when the Chamber of Deputies approved a constitutional accusation against him presented by the opposition, and President Sebastián Piñera had to quickly put the Interior Undersecretary Juan Francisco Galli in charge temporarily.
In this regard, ‘Radio y Periodico Universidad de Chile’ recalled that Perez is the third man to leave the ministry in a year, and warns that, contrary to all logic, the Government preferred to shield the general director of the Carabineers, Mario Rozas, than its own Ministers of the Interior, leaning ‘to a state of fragility that, instead of rebounding, worsens.’
It also pointed out that in the three cases, the accusations were similar. The problem is not the people, but rather a structural issue centred on unacceptable actions, violating human rights by the police force.
The media points out that ‘the Government has had successive opportunities to distance itself from the Carabineers’ disrepute but has preferred to tie both fates.’ In the current situation, it has entered a phase of fragility for which it is partly responsible.
Meanwhile, the El Siglo newspaper analysis indicates that Piñera will have to select a new minister in a concise term, since delaying the decision would further stress the crisis. Still, as it warned, the easiest and most forceful way is to leave Galli in front.
Galli, the organ of the Communist Party, affirms, ‘has a performance according to the most sensitive interests of La Moneda (Chile’s presidential seat)’ and gets along well with the high command of the Carabineers, but does not have a great political experience. However, there may be a big surprise yet.
