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In a vote that broke the initial forecasts, the Senate approved the names of Natalia González and Bernardo Navarrete (DC) as councilors of the Council for Transparency (CPLT) by 32 votes in favor, 4 against and 4 abstentions,
Although everything indicated that the Senate Chamber would reject the Government’s proposal, finally there was white smoke and the quorum of 2/3 of the senators was more than reached to be ratified, with votes from the DC and the PPD.
The top stone was the figure of Natalia González, director of Legal and Legislative Affairs of the Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo, a think tank linked to the UDI, an active defender of the “Rejection” option in the constituent plebiscite and also close to Cristián Larroulet, chief of the Second Floor of La Moneda.
The Government risked a new defeat in Congress, but that did not happen. Although in the Senate Constitution Committee, the proposal was rejected by 3 votes to 2, at the time of the vote in the Chamber, Alfonso de Urresti (PS) and Pedro Araya (independent) spoke out, as in the Constitution Commission, in addition to RD Juan Ignacio Latorre and PS Rabindranath Quinteros.
For the abstention, meanwhile, were the socialists Carlos Montes, Alvaro Elizalde and Isabel Allende, and DC Francisco Huenchumilla, who had voted against in the Constitution Commission.
This was the vote:
During the debate, UDI senator Ena von Baer came out in defense of Natalia González, and confronted the opposition’s position. “This vote can mark a before and after in our democracy, these are the moments when we must defend pluralism.” Along the same lines, the senator from Evópoli, Felipe Kast, accused the opposition of “baseness” and of “wanting to veto Natalia González for her political position.”
“Let’s not tear clothes, it is not the first time that this Senate has rejected nominations,” Senator Pedro Araya recalled, noting that the Upper House is only complying with its authority.
With this approval by the Senate, the CPLT completed its five advisers and maintains political balances: the political scientist Gloria de la Fuente (former Chile 21) as president, the lawyer Francisco Leturia, and now Natalia González y Navarrete (DC), who He replaces former president Jorge Jaraquemada and the resigned Marcelo Drago.
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