Chilean legislators will begin random drug testing in the next few days after a proposal making it compulsory was approved last month, despite criticism from some lawmakers.
The first 78 Chilean deputies to be tested were randomly drawn this week, and will now have their first series of drug tests, in an effort to raise the standards of transparency in parliamentary work.
"There is nothing more important than giving people transparency, that their parliamentarians are not [drug]consumers," right-wing Deputy Juan Antonio Coloma told the country's public TV channel on Thursday.
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