translated from Spanish: Abortion: former Minister Segpres said that “the Government should an explanation the women”

“do not agree with the decision of the Constitutional Court because the first because we believe that the TC is transforming through the facts and parti” especially with regard to requirements that repeatedly make parliamentarians of ChileVamos, in a sort of third House, therefore you are, in one way or another, to carry the popular sovereignty expressed by Congress when it approved a law as in this case a law of abortion on three grounds. That worries us, we are concerned that a body of this nature which interprets the Constitution, end transformed into a sort of third political Chamber. This morning on radio universe that is serious for the democratic institutions of the country,”said the former Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Gabriel de La Fuente, with regard to the decision of the Constitutional Court (TC) known yesterday by declaring illegally.” Here is a speaker that is unfortunately not intervening, which has stealth acted in circumstances which should have acted very directly that it is the Government. “The regulation which has been contested by (…) Parliamentary Government is a regulation issued by the President Piñera”, added. He added that if La Moneda “did not share the criteria (…) “one is not obliged to issue regulations that are contrary to their own convictions (…) calls attention that dictate a regulation and then not take charge of its own rules of defending it against TC”. This last as the Government yesterday did not the allegations before the Court. The source stressed that the President could have insisted to take reason for the first regulation which ordered – with the signing of all its Ministers – once the Comptroller had depicted him, but that did not. “Here there is a contradiction, inconsistency as you want to call it. The Government should an explanation women, adolescent girls, the girls that if they want to appeal to a private institution of health that has agreements with the obstetric Gynecology State and that institution is conscientious objector, is not going to be able to the benefits that the law guarantees”.” Conscientious objection is an excepcionalisima institution and takes place that we are establishing a way of not guaranteeing the rights established in a law that are of General effects by way of exception,”he added. Then said that these institutions must “choose between its ideology or silver, they want to respect his ideas and also to pay them.” That is very unfair”.” It is very unfortunate this because not only the Government hides its hand with regard to a regulation that he issued. Parliamentarians of Government are very dangerous to constantly appeal to the TC to change the sovereign will expressed at the Congress with respect to laws where they are minority. Own TC is not doing you a great favor to the democratic institutions to transform itself by way of the facts in a third House”, he said.” I have the impression that this is part of a strategy, I do not understand it in another way, why the Government was party to the appeal when he was given a transfer and he was obliged to go to defend its Supreme Decree, why insist parliamentarians of Government whenever they lose a vote in Congress turn to TC, (…) the President just rely on the TC to declare unconstitutional a rule of the budget Act which guarantees free higher education”.” Then the TC is transforming a third Chamber which is to subtract the sovereign will expressed at the Congress, and that seems to be part of a strategy and that is very dangerous because it denatures the democratic institutions.”

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