from Bruxelles: MEPS SURPRISED BY THE EXCLUSION SUFFERED BY PODEMOS
Luokka: Tomas Hirsch, United Kingdom
The ex-presidential candidate for Juntos Podemos, Tomas Hirsch, had a day full of activities, with meetings in Brussels with MEPs from the left and green blocks of the European Parliament.
The Humanist leader had a working meeting with the left block composed of 41 MEPs. "They have always been very concerned about what is happening in Latin America and shown themselves to be very interested in the current process - specifically in South America".
But Tomas indicated that once again the idea was repeated of Chile being a country governed by the left as "they have no idea of the immense penetration of the neoliberal model and the multinationals that exist in our country, they also cannot believe that we, with 7% in the past elections, did not get representation in the Congress".
After meeting with the left block, Tomas met with the MEP Gladis Duipert of the green block, who works in the environmental issue and was very concerned with what is happening in Chile, specifically with CELCO and Pascua Lama.
"When I told her how the salmon industry works in Chile, she was shocked, and even more when the Norwegian-based multinationals who develop the salmon industry in Chile, pay one sixth of what they pay in Europe, apart from causing irreparable damage to the environment in the south of Chile", commented Tomas Hirsch.
In the meeting with the German MEP, she was informed about how the Pascua Lama project was approved in spite of the government promising to not authorise it if it damaged the environment. "She was interested by what happened with Celco and was shocked when I told her that it was opened without fulfilling the environmental laws of our country."
An agreement was made in this conversation between Tomas and the MEP. In October she, together with other MEPs of the left block, will come to Chile to find out for themselves how the environmental situation is in our country.
"They (the left block) are in a very active campaign against the neoliberal model that is deteriorating the environment not only in Chile but across the whole of Latin America", added the Humanist leader.
Finally, Tomas Hirsch headed to the UK where he will meet with the Latin American colony in that country and hold a meeting with the UK Humanist Party.