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The Senate room rejected this Thursday, for lack of a vote, the report of the Mixed Commission that sought to lift disabilities that allowed mayors to run for Congress without resigning a year earlier, as well as for deputies and senators to run for other popularly elected public offices.
This decision was due to the fact that the vote, which needed a quorum of 26 votes to continue its processing, achieved the support of only 25 parliamentarians, with which the project was considered rejected.
Senator of the Christian Democrats Yasna Provoste, who promoted one of the projects that was recast, did not want to vote against, abstained and finally his vote turned out to be decisive for not reaching the required number.
Regarding this decision, the Minister of the Segpres, Christian Monckeberg, affirmed that “finally they are the decisions of different parliamentarians and beyond the position they had, which is always very legitimate, There was no political majority there and one vote was missing. “
“I find it regrettable and painful, because what we wanted was to have more competition”, the Secretary of State pointed out.
For her part, Senator Carolina Goic (DC), pointed out that “so that mayors can compete, to lift their disability, the cost of the transaction is that the parliamentarians are also raised, and that is circumventing limiting the election that we already approved, that is what citizenship demands of us. “
“It seems to me that it is not within the ethical standards that citizens ask of us today”, the former presidential candidate pointed out.
With this vote, this project is finally no longer viable, since it needed to be approved by both houses of Congress and they will no longer have to meet tomorrow to vote on it.
The House has just reported that since the Senate rejected the bill that lifted the inability to run for other positions, they will no longer have to meet tomorrow to vote on it.
Deputies in the room reacted with applause.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) September 24, 2020
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