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The Senate table headed by Adriana Muñoz (PPD) proposed suspending the Secretary of the Corporation, former prosecutor Raúl Guzmán, from his duties, on whom an imminent formalization weighs for violation of article 318 of the Penal Code due to the controversial episode of his visit to a San Miguel restaurant in the middle of a pandemic.
However, at the level of Congress, the final word is held by the Internal Regime Commission – which is in charge of supervising the administrative and internal order of the Corporation’s services – which could be summoned for today or at the latest on Wednesday.
In statements to Third, the head of the Upper House said that “the agreement is that if this progresses to formalization, by the way, we will have to take measures. The most important thing is that the secretary has time to present a defense against the charges that the prosecution may raise. And one of the lines that we have proposed is that he can suspend his activities while that process is ongoing, but that depends on the Internal Regime.
It should be remembered that on June 25, the Secretary of the Senate was the protagonist of a controversy when he was photographed in the restaurant “Loyola”, together with the prosecutor Patricio Rosas and the advisor Roberto Contreras, without a mask or social distancing in the middle of the COVID-pandemic. 19.
His first explanation was that he went to the place to look for law books, but the investigation of the Public Ministry, in charge of the Regional Prosecutor of Biobío, Marcela Cartagena, already has a series of documents, photographs, images of the security cameras of the premises and the seizure of a computer that support its imminent formalization, reported Radio Bío Bío.
Meanwhile, Guzmán’s companions, the prosecutor Patricio Rosas and the advisor to the South Prosecutor’s Office, Roberto Contreras, are suspended from their positions for that fact. In addition, today it was known that the administrative prosecutor Christian Toledo filed charges against both after proving their disciplinary responsibility.
“An uncomfortable situation for the Senate”
Although most of the senators have decided to remain silent and not speak out against the Guzmán case, who could be formalized for attending a restaurant in the midst of a pandemic, violating health regulations, Senator DC Yasna Provoste admitted that “it is obviously an uncomfortable situation for the Senate “
According to Adriana Muñoz, they have “proposed to the different benches to establish some measures, not sanctioning, because we always start from the principle of presumption of innocence”, but given the resistance of some senators “we have not been able to make any decision because this has to collective ”.
“The decision of the Internal Regime has been, from the beginning, that while the issue was still in court, the Senate was going to wait for the result of those proceedings. And the senators have remained in that position, despite the fact that we as a table have insisted that there is discomfort with the media situation that has been installed due to the fact that a person who is being investigated continues in his functions, “he added.
It should be remembered that last week the secretary referred to the investigation against him and stressed that he has not thought of resigning or “no one has suggested that I resign from the position.”
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