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This Wednesday, the Constitutional Court (TC) decided to accept for processing the request entered by President Sebastián Piñera seeking to declare unconstitutional the reform that will allow a second withdrawal of 10%, an initiative presented by a group of opposition parliamentarians.
After hours where the ministers debated, the request was finally accepted for processing with the casting vote of the president of the TC and former chief of advisers of the second floor of La Moneda in the Government of Piñera 1, María Luisa Brahm.
The vote was finally 5 to 5, so the Brahm vote allowed the appeal to go to its next process.
Brahm became president of the TC in August 2019, after having a career linked to President Piñera. First as executive director of the Libertad Institute, the RN think tank, then as its legislative advisor since she was a senator from Santiago Oriente, until she became its chief adviser in her first presidency. In fact, the President himself appointed her minister of the TC in 2013.
The request was entered by the Government as a way to overcome the constitutional reform led by Pamela Jiles and set a precedent before the legislative initiatives of parliamentarians that in La Moneda’s opinion are “unconstitutional”.
However, some already argue that if Congress has already dispatched the Government’s project for the second withdrawal of 10%, and the reform presented by the deputies is trapped in the Mixed Commission, it is seen as counterproductive to continue before the TC with the requirement already that the reform was rejected in Congress.
Summons to hearings
In today’s vote, in favor of declaring it admissible were the aforementioned Brahm, Iván Aróstica, Juan José Romero, Cristian Letelier and Miguel Ángel Fernández.
On the other hand, for not accepting the Government’s request for processing were José Ignacio Vásquez, Gonzalo García, Nelson Pozo, María Pía Silva and Rodrigo Pica.
According to the newspaper Third, the discussion that took place today was fierce and all the ministers intervened giving their points of view regarding Piñera’s request.
The next process is the summons to hearings to argue for or against the reform, which would have a period of 20 days.
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