Defense commission began study of a project that refines the causal exclusion of the military service

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Spanish/Latin America/A –

Source: Chamber Of Deputies Of Chile

The Defence Committee initiated the discussion of the project that seeks to refine the causal exclusion of the conscription in the branches of the Armed Forces, with the object of preventing young people with a commitment delinquent meet his or her military duties.

In particular, the initiative (bulletin 12004) increases the requirement to perform military service. The existing rule excludes those individuals who have been sentenced to penalty distressing (three years and a day) and the proposal raises as a requirement “not have been convicted of crimes or simple offences”.

The discussion focused on the type of crimes that merit the ban, as explained by the president of the instance, deputy Manuel Matta (DC). “The conversation revolved around whether or not it is possible to set a limit on the income of youth who have a history in tort or delict or criminal behavior, especially when you think that conscription is not only to the age of 18 years, because it can be up to 24 by the various postponements,” he said.

In this line, the promoter of the bill, congressman Mario Overflows (RN), noted that the idea is to add to the prohibition for convictions of grief distressing of three years and a day or more, other serious crimes that today you have no such sanction.

“The criminal law teenager allows, for example, that a young person is found with five kilos of cocaine, weapons and ammunition, will be sentenced to 500 days of punishment remitted or is that young man who is a drug trafficker, maybe with recidivism, today enters the military service without problem

In both, the under-secretary for the Armed Forces, Juan Francisco Galli, said that the idea is to dimension the illegal that would qualify in this restriction, since it must not be forgotten that conscription is seen by many young people and families as a form of reintegration and alternative employment and future development.

“The discussion of the background is to who we believe pose a risk that have military training for having committed crimes, but these crimes must have a certain entity, a certain gravity that allows us to make this exclusion,” posed.

The Commission agreed to request a report from your few Constitution, in order to establish the constitutionality of the rule, in particular, to empower the directorate general of National Mobilization to get the certificate of a history of young people applying to military service.

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