translated from Spanish: Appeal to the IACHR and constitutional accusation against Ministers: the options of the opposition after the controversial failure of the TC about abortion

Since the opposition already shuffled some formulas to respond to the setback suffered in the Constitutional Court in matters of abortion on three grounds, following the resolution of the Agency d (e) welcome the parliamentarians of Chile we resource and giving green light to the delivery of public resources to private declaring themselves conscientious objectors.
The President of the Commission of health of the Senate, Guido Girardi (PPD), described as “undemocratic” the Constitutional Court ruling and announced that it will consider resorting to the Inter-American Court of human rights (IACHR).
“The decision of the Constitutional Court is undemocratic because non-compliance approved overwhelmingly by Congress, which violates the fundamental rights of women and accused of complicity to the Executive for not defending the rules that they themselves sent “, said the Senator, accompanied by the leaders of the party for democracy, Pia Castelli, Ximena Rivillo and Teresa Valdés, and the spokeswoman for the platform by a free abortion and safe, Laura Quintana.” This resolution obliges us to evaluate our lawyers if it is relevant to resort to the IACHR. Us we cannot so because here fundamental rights are concerned. What has been done here is violating the human rights of women,”said parliamentarian.
Meanwhile, members of the Communist Party shuffled another formula: the presentation of a constitutional accusation against Ministers of the Constitutional Tribunal (TC), which welcomed the request of Chile are going by 8 votes to 2.
Deputy member of the Committee on health of the House, Karol Cariola, said that “we will continue evaluating possible constitutional accusation with respect to the judges of the Constitutional Court, which have fully overcome its powers and with that have made outright abandonment of duties with respect to their work”.
It should be recalled that by hosting the requirement of Chile we Silva and Miguel Angel Fernandez were the Ministers Iván Aróstica (Chairman of the TC), Domingo Hernández, María Luisa Brahm, Juan José Romero, Cristián Letelier José Ignacio Vásquez, Pia. Meanwhile, for the rejection were Gonzalo García and Nelson well. The final decision will be known later on 18 January of the year.
The “complicity” of Government Cariola also lashed out the position of the Executive in this matter, not to defend its own rules, before the TC pointing out that “the Government wanted to twist the democratic will and what he did was to send it to TC through the UDI have been” transformed into the guard dogs of politics anti-woman, that are implementing this Government”.
For Girardi, there was here a “trick, a concerted move between the Government and parliamentary right, where the Government took an accomplice”.
Also, the PPD Senator put focus on the need to reform TC, because it has been ‘instrumentalized’ by right. “There is no need to have a suprapoder, above the bodies democratically elected by the will of the people”, he said.

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