Government calls Senator Macaya’s statement in support of his father ‘horrible’

this Government Spokesperson Camila Vallejo,mentioned New information from the statement of Senator Javier Macaya (UDI) as a witness in favor of his father, Eduardo Macaya was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two minors.

According to this story Giant Surveythe Alliance MP questioned one of the victims in his statement, assuring her that she was a “zoomed in girl”.

According to the ruling, which the media has access to, “The defendant and his children, Constanza, Eduardo and Javier, have questioned NN’s behavior. They point out that she is a “zoomed” girl because she has used a mobile phone since she was a child, has Instagram, dances to Tik Tok, and has posted a photo on social networks in which she wears a green scarf in support of pro-life causes. The defendant added that once he saw her make an (obscene) gesture.”

Of the known antecedents of this day, Vallejo insists“This is a new and terrible precedent and it is serious that statements of this type must be made known.This also reinforces what we have said before, that Senator Macaya’s comments from the outset tended to side with the father rather than the victim.”

“Cases of sexual crimes against minors are extremely serious, as children and adolescents need the utmost protection from society as a whole, primarily from those who hold representative positions and have institutional responsibility for the state. “The message conveyed by such information or the senator’s statement is that, in the end, victims have to be afraid to report because they are not believed or because of prejudice against them, which is something we cannot afford as a society,” the spokesperson added.

“We understand that the senator’s decision to resign was also due to pressure from citizens and those around him, and obviously we are not in a position to comment on the decisions of a political party,” the spokesperson said.

“It is important to understand that when we as authorities, as political representatives, have important tasks for the country, we cannot agree to these types of statements or positions because they distort the principles that we as a society have been democratically founded on, that crimes of sexual conduct are unacceptable, they carry heavy sentences, but especially crimes of sexual abuse against minors require maximum and special protection,” he said.

Javier Macaya He resigned as president of UDI last Tuesday He previously sparked controversy over comments he made about the trial of his father, Eduardo Macaya, who was found guilty of sexually abusing two minors.

These were made last Sunday at Mesa Central. Canal 13when he questioned one of the evidence presented at the trial, he said “here you have a situation that starts with a domestic situation of a person recorded in a domestic environment and that was produced without his consent, recorded with evidence and with a carefully edited video.”