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The Senate Chamber set this Wednesday the quorum necessary to approve the constitutional reform that seeks to reserve seats for native peoples in the next constitutional convention.
In that sense, the parliamentarians of the Upper House chose to leave said quorum at 3/5. It was this Tuesday when the opposition argued that as it was a reform to a transitory article of the Constitution, it should be voted with 3/5, on the other hand, from Chile Vamos pointed out that the norm should be voted with 2/3, according to La Third.
At the beginning of the session, the Secretary of the Senate, Raúl Guzmán, indicated that the initiative should be voted on 2/3 for its approval, an assertion that contradicts the report made by the Constitutional Commission.
Guzmán’s words echoed Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC), who argued that “there is no rule in the regulations, nor in the Law, nor in the Constitution that authorizes the secretary to make a qualification regarding the nature of the quorums with which a constitutional reform or a Law is voted.”
Along these lines, Huenchumilla added that Guzmán should “have abstained from making this report, since it is, as I say, that there is no rule of public law that authorizes him to interfere in a controversy raised in the courtroom.”
“Prudence would have been necessary, our minister of faith would have kept it in mind, because obviously the Government and a coalition like Chile Vamos will have as a precedent what the secretary has stated here to go to the Constitutional Court “Huenchumilla mentioned.
The aforementioned is related to the statements of Senator Rodrigo Galilea (RN), who this Tuesday assured that if the quorum was set at 3/5, he would appeal to the Constitutional Court.
For its part, Senator Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI) indicated that it was the Chamber of the Upper House itself that had asked Guzmán for a pronouncement on the dilemma.
“A chapter of the constitution is being changed that clearly indicates that it is changed by 2/3 of the parliamentarians. (…) What the secretary has said is the correct way to apply the constitutional norm, otherwise it would not make sense to establish different quorums, ”Coloma mentioned.
Despite the above, The Chamber agreed by 22 votes in favor, 18 against and no abstention that the norm be voted with a quorum of 2/5.
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