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Although the Government trusts that the libel will not prosper, this morning the opposition benches gave a sign of unity and confirmed their support for the constitutional accusation against Interior Minister Víctor Pérez.
The libel entered right-wing land, because this afternoon it was voted in the review committee and on Tuesday, November 3, in the Chamber of the Chamber of Deputies, where it needs 78 votes for approval. If it has the green light, it goes to the Senate and the chief of staff would be suspended from his functions, which has La Moneda on alert.
The first litmus test will be in the review committee made up of Loreto Carvajal (PPD), Jenny Álvarez (PS), Joaquín Lavín (UDI), Fernando Meza (Independent) and Alejandro Bernales (PL).
From now on, Carvajal confirmed that he will vote in favor of the libel against Víctor Pérez: “The antecedents are overwhelming … he does not deserve to continue being Minister of the Interior,” he said this morning.
The libel consists of three chapters and aims at the control of public order, the actions of the minister during the stoppage of truckers and hierarchical control over the Carabineros, a topic in the fore after the new episode of police abuse on the Pío Nono bridge.
The prosecution of the accusation has been marked by the strategy of the Interior Minister’s lawyers to try to endorse responsibility for the actions of the Carabineros in the Defense portfolio.
However, publicly and in the same instance, said argument was buried by the Minister of Defense, Mario Desbordes, who insisted that “the forces of order and public security depend on the ministry in charge of public security in accordance with the Constitution, that is, the Ministry of the Interior ”and“ the state of exception does not modify this dependency ”.
Side and Side Calculations
In the run-up to the vote, the government has redoubled its criticism of the accusation. “I have had to read it (the accusation) deeply and I am convinced that it does not have any arguments to carry it out”, said this morning the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Cristián Monckeberg, who was convinced that the libel “does not have any arguments “to get it done.
“You can never guarantee votes. It is impossible. What I do believe is that there are arguments that allow us to convince everyone (…) I think we are going to convince everyone that it is unfair, ”concluded the Secretary of State.
For his part, and along the same lines, the government spokesman, Jaime Bellolio, said that “there is no legal basis to accuse a minister who has been in office for three months.”
However, in the opposition they trust that the votes will be in the Chamber. “All the DC deputies will be voting in favor of this accusation,” said Gabriel Ascencio, one of the promoters of the libel, on Wednesday.
“We have talked with everyone, we are absolutely optimistic about an extraordinary result,” said Ascencio, regarding the scenario that the vote will face.
The PPD bench also compromised their votes. On behalf of the eight deputies of this parliamentary lot, the head of the bench Raúl Soto commented that “in the review commission it has become clear that the defense of the interior minister has collapsed like a house of cards, all his political and legal arguments remained on the floor”.
“We are going to approve in court so that the minister assumes his political responsibility for having stopped executing the laws and for having applied with discretion and arbitrariness, never again in our country can we leave this type of situation unpunished,” he said.
The deputy PC Camila Vallejo, meanwhile, also joined this show of opposition unity “against impunity.” “We have worked to approve the Constitutional Indictment against the Minister of the Interior, because we cannot allow more abuses of power. This Tuesday it is reviewed in the Chamber of Deputies and we are optimistic that it will be approved, “he said.
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