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After last Friday President Sebastián Piñera He will be appointed counselor of the Defense Council of the (CDE), yesterday monday Alberto Espina had his first meeting with the president of the organization, Juan Antonio Peribonio. The two have known each other for years: Peribonio was his chief of staff when he was a deputy and he was general secretary of RN when Espina was the party president.
At this meeting, the president of the CDE informed Piñera’s former defense minister that will be part of the Environmental Labor Committee, together with the lawyers Clara Szczaranski (designated by Eduardo Frei) and Jaime Varela (designated by Michelle Bachelet). This committee studies labor, environmental, expropriations, free competition and public and tax purchases.
The institution’s function is to defend the interests of the Treasury in different judicial areas and is divided into four committees. Each of them is made up of three counselors.
Total, There are 12 counselor lawyers who make up the plenary session – all appointed by the President of the Republic – and they meet every Tuesday from 3:00 p.m. Today will be the first plenary session in which Espina will participate. It will do it from the same offices of the CDE.
The landing, however, has not been far from complications. The same day that the President appointed him to the position – a position that he can exercise up to 75 years and his removal must be by agreement of the Senate- agency officials released an open letter in which they questioned his arrival. “It seems to us at least questionable that such an appointment falls on who was recently a member of his political team; This encourages the apprehensions and objections of the citizenship in order that the appointments are oriented towards a retribution of political loyalty, and not the selection on merit ”, says the letter.
Even, Today in the afternoon the National Association of Officials together with the body’s lawyers, will define whether or not they will try to challenge the appointment of Espina through a presentation at the Comptroller’s Office, alluding to the fact that beyond having 15 years of practice, it is important to understand what is meant by having that work experience and whether or not that qualifies you to be a counselor.
In the circle near Espina They see that the criticism of officials has no basis. They say that by law the requirement to be a counselor is that the person have 15 years of experience as a lawyer and that Espina has 28 years of experience as a member of the Senate and House Constitution Committee. Further, They point out that practicing as a lawyer is not related to litigating or not litigating.
