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The The Chamber of Deputies and Deputies rejected this Thursday, in general, the constitutional reform project that sought to provide for the enabling of a system of special non-attendance suffrage, for those at high risk of spreading Covid-19 contagion on the dates close to the plebiscite or other electoral events.
The initiative only reached 79 of the 93 favorable votes required your approval, in addition 38 abstentions and 19 against.
During the debate in the Chamber, the independent deputy Pepe Auth voted in favor of the project and urged the need to move towards a system that guarantees that “people do not have to travel miles and miles to exercise their right to vote.” However, he formulated objections to the implementation of the postal vote, estimating that “breaks with the legal principle of secret suffrage” and that “in a society like Chile’s, We run the risk that some head of the household will vote three times for his children, his wife or whoever. “
As an example, the legislator confessed that he often pays for himself through postal mail in Italian elections, without being a citizen of that European country.
“I’m going to tell you an anecdote: I vote in the Italian elections, although I am not an Italian citizen, because my mother-in-law and my wife are. However, as I follow the Italian newspapers, They pass me their vote and I mark the preference in each of the elections “, Auth admitted.
“I am counting an illegal act”, the legislator recognized before being interrupted by the vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, Francisco Undurraga (Evópoli), who warned him: “Do not make this Chamber a participant or an accomplice in your illegalities.”
“I am under the jurisdiction”Auth replied, laughing.
The confession:
The illegality recognized by the deputy Pepe Auth.@Cooperative pic.twitter.com/wkdIPRM0pQ
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) September 24, 2020
The worst thing is that it is not even illegal for me to fill out the vote that they ask me to do for them. I do not support postal voting in Chile because I fear that the principle of voting secrecy would be violated and there is a risk that relations of domination will be expressed in some households
– Pepe Auth (@pepe_auth) September 24, 2020
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