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Despite the fact that the issue was already settled by Congress, six RN deputies (Karin Luck, René García, Diego Paulsen, Jorge Rathgeb, Leopoldo Pérez and Frank Sauerbaum) and DC Gabriel Silber, presented a bill to lift disabilities to mayors so that they can be candidates for Congress (November 2021) or regional governments (April 2021) without having to resign a year before as currently established by law. The project also has the permission of the Executive, who put great urgency on it.
The initiative favors the communal authorities that are in their third term and that due to the law that limits re-election, they will not be able to run for another four years in office, seeking to enable them to run for other popularly elected positions without meeting the deadline set by law for his resignation from his current position.
The initiative raised immediate criticism in Congress. For the MP Gael Yeomans (Social Convergence), It is “unpresentable to put traps and small letters, to a law already settled. This is against what the citizens want to have new faces, “he told CNN Chile.
The transitory provision that introduces the reform in the Constitution states that “It was authorized for the only time to run in the elections of 2021 for the positions of deputy, senator, regional councilor or regional governor to the mayors and councilors who, on the date of entry in force of Law No. 21,238 were in exercise of the position, and that they were prevented from being reelected in it due to the limitation provided by it. The mayors and councilors who make use of the prerogative provided in this article will cease in their position at the time his candidacy is registered by the Electoral Service in the Special Registry for the final election “.
The promoters of the project point out that they do not seek to enable one more re-election for the current councilors but to lift the barriers so that they can compete. According to him deputy Silber, “This project seeks to eliminate these obstacles and that, ultimately, in a democracy the one that in the opinion of Chileans concentrates the greatest convergence and adherence wins.”
In his opinion, “by far the current mayors have had greater participation, leadership and legitimacy vis-à-vis Chileans in the social outbreak. Consequently, today I see fear of the current parliamentarians of being able to be electorally challenged by the mayors in office and by secretariat some seek to block the competition by secretariat ”.
In statements to CNN Chile, the lucky deputy He maintained that “it is not a tailored suit, but only to allow mayors to finish their term in May of next year and not have to resign now in November. Many deputies complain, but are afraid that the mayors will compete with them. No one has to be afraid of competition. It is not for them to go to reelection a fourth time. “
In a separate lane runs another project presented by deputies of the UDI that also seeks to eliminate inabilities of mayors, councilors, also adding regional councilors. The project also has the utmost urgency of the Government.
According to head of the UDI bench, María José Hoffmann, “This Congress committed a serious act of injustice with more than a hundred mayors, from all over Chile and of all political colors, where the rules of the game were changed halfway through. And it seems to us of all justice not to remove the good authorities as secretaries and we will always be willing to correct that error ”.
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