The president went out to reject the vote of Deputies who approved the accusation against him for an alleged conflict of interest in the sale of a mining company to a friend of his, revealed by the journalistic investigation known as “Pandora Papers”.
“We are convinced that this accusation has no basis”Piñera remarked. Followed, and described that “after a careful reading” of the document, he concluded that “the accusation is based on false or cleverly related facts or on simple conjectures or positions that do not comply with the norms that regulate a constitutional accusation”.
According to the sites of Radio Cooperativa and the newspaper La Tercera, the president affirmed that “the facts were analyzed and investigated in depth by the Prosecutor’s Office, by a Court of Guarantees, by the Court of Appeals and even in an appeal by the Supreme Court“And added:” It was unanimously decreed that there was no irregularity”.
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For the president, the accusation “is due to a rarefied climate that is being experienced in Chilean politics and that the Chileans could observe in that long night in which it was debated and that has a clear and unjustified electoral interest“.
He was confident that on Tuesday of next week the Senate, which should act as a jury, “objectively, rationally and reflectively analyzing the facts, is going to totally dismiss this accusation “.
For its part, the Senate must limit itself to declaring whether the accused is guilty or not. For this, the vote of two thirds of the Chamber is needed, that is, 29 of the 43 seats. The opposition only controls 24, so should get the backing of at least five government officials. If Piñera were found guilty, it would be removed from office and could not hold any public office for five years.
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Since October 8, when the journalistic investigation became known, The Prosecutor’s Office investigates whether Piñera carried out or omitted steps in his capacity as a public official, which could influence the third clause of the sales contract signed in the British Virgin Islands for the sale of the firm Dominga.
The accusation voted in Deputies awards him “Having openly violated the Constitution and the laws” and “To have seriously compromised the honor of the nation.”
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