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By 3 votes to 2, the Senate Constitution Commission rejected the proposal of the President of the Republic to appoint Natalia González Bañados and Bernardo Navarrete Yáñez as members of the Council for Transparency.
Now, it is up to the Senate Chamber to pronounce promptly, an instance that is looming complex for the Government, because the presidential proposal needs two-thirds of the votes.
Bernardo Navarrete Yáñez is an academic at the University of Santiago, while the lawyer Natalia González, director of Legal Affairs of the Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, a center linked to the UDI and whose executive director is the former Minister of Education, Marcela Cubillos.
In fact, the socialist senator Alfonso de Urresti and president of the Constitution Commission, justified his vote against, noting that “I rejected the nomination of Natalia González because the strengthening of @ctransparencia requires that directors have full dedication to the position and not double membership exercising both as a counselor and as an activist for an ideological promotion center such as Libertad y Desarrollo.
The nominees seek to replace the directors Marcelo Drago Aguirre – resigned in June – and Jorge Jaraquemada Roblero, whose term expires on October 29 of this year.
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