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SANTIAGO — Despite criticism from some lawmakers, Chilean lawmakers will begin random drug testing within days after a proposal to make drug testing compulsory was approved last month. .
Her 78 Chilean lawmakers, the first to be tested, were randomly selected this week to undergo the first round of drug tests in a bid to raise the bar of transparency in parliamentary activity. became.
The new proposal states that every member of Congress must be tested twice in each of her four-year terms, and any positive results will be made public.
"There is nothing more important than giving people transparency: MPs are not consumers," right-wing vice president Juan Antonio Coloma said Thursday. told the country's public television channel.
That came after the Finnish prime minister said he would voluntarily conduct a drug test after being filmed on a night out.
However, the Chilean proposal has split the country's parliamentarians along party lines as they vote for a new constitution aimed at restructuring the country.
"I do not agree with this procedure," independent MP Marcela Riquelme told TV Nacional de Chile, while others called the measure "an unacceptable show." is.
Legislators who refuse to take the test may be referred to the House Ethics Committee. (Reuters TV, Written by Carolina Priss and Isabel Woodford, Edited by Sandra Muller)
