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The Electoral Service site indicates that Pablo Longueira (UDI) is not eligible to vote in the next primaries for governors of November 29, so he could not run for either the presidency of his party or the Constitutional Convention, the two possibilities behind his reappearance in politics.
As published The clinic, the Guarantee Court included the former minister in the list of people who have their rights suspended, information that was later referred to the electoral body and the Supreme Court of his conglomerate.
The decision is taken before the preparation of the oral trial of the SQM case, within the framework of which Longueira faces an accusation for bribery and tax crimes as consummated and repeated.
The former president is also investigated by the Public Ministry for an alleged collusion with former manager of the mining company Patricio Contesse which led to the drafting of the Mining Royalty Law, in exchange for paying a series of resources that went to its close friends and foundations, charges that, according to the emblematic UDI in Cooperative they are part of a “political persecution”.
In the accusation that the former Valparaíso regional prosecutor Pablo Gómez reported to the Eighth Guarantee Court, they request penalties of 818 days for the crime of bribery, plus another 818 for tax crimes, which is added to fines of 242 million and 20 UTA.
However, the specific cause of the suspension lies in the final apex of the sentence requested in the accusation, in which also It is requested that he be disqualified for five years and one day to assume public office.
Former minister could appeal the measure for subsequent elections, but he will be obliged to exempt himself from the municipal primaries after the closing of the electoral roll in the Servel.
The measure against Longueira leaves him out of the race to preside over the UDI, which from the beginning caused a lukewarm reaction in the unionism, convulsed by the dispute between the head of the bank María José Hoffmann and the current helmsman Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, who is obliged by law to leave the table after two terms in command.
The possibility of a consensus list to lead the community – with former Interior Minister Víctor Pérez at the helm – will be elucidated in the coming weeks; if not, the competition will be between the former senator and Hoffmann’s list.
