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It was unanimous. Unlike the resolution that accepted the request presented by parliamentarians of Chile, we are looking for stop the advance of the project that sanctions denialism in Chile, this time all the ministers of the Constitutional Court decided to declare the release admissible and now the merits of the appeal will be discussed.
In this way, the constitutional action raised by some parliamentarians of the ruling party passed its second stumbling block after being declared admissible. Likewise but This time in a divided decision, the majority of the ministers determined that the debate will be opened to civil society and for this, hearings will be held in which they will participate.
This last determination of the plenary session of the TC counted with the votes against the ministers Iván Aróstica and José Ignacio Vásquez, who were of the idea of not holding public hearings. However, the majority position prevailed.
Last week a group of deputies from Chile Vamos had entered the letter, sponsored by 56 coalition parliamentarians, requesting that the bill that sanctions denial be declared unconstitutional.
The initiative, which seeks to punish in the criminal sphere those who deny human rights violations committed during the dictatorship, is currently in its second legislative process in the Senate. This, after on September 22 it was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, where legislator Camila Flores (RN) made reservation of constitutionality of the project.
“There is a sector of politics that is determined, unfortunately, to be curtailing our freedoms: freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, the freedom of parents to educate their children, freedom of worship, in short. And we parliamentarians from Chile Vamos are united to prevent our freedoms from being restricted “said deputy Flores when the request was entered.
