Weekly Report - 23 June 2016 (WR-16-24)

“Why are people on the Right being treated more harshly than people on the Left?” This rhetorical expostulation came from Chilean Deputy Juan Antonio Coloma, the head of the ultra-conservative opposition Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) bloc in the lower chamber of congress. Coloma’s indignation followed last week’s imprisonment of Senator Jaime Orpis, who became the first politician in Chile to be jailed on the grounds of corruption since the country’s return to democracy in 1990. Rather than focusing on the corruption itself, which Orpis has admitted, and how to combat it, Coloma preferred to query why, in his view, the UDI was being singled out for it while the ruling left-wing Nueva Mayoría coalition was getting away so lightly.

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