translated from Spanish: Christian Democracy, the weakest flank of the constitutional indictment against Minister Cubillos

The constitutional accusation against the Minister of Education, Marcela Cubillos, must be passed with 78 votes. Today the opposition has 83 mPs, which is why the Executive is betting on getting the votes of members of the sector, specifically of the Christian Democracy, who are still undecided to bring down the libel.
The DC has become the weakest flank of the presentation and in fact the Government has already made contacts to stem the accusation. According to La Tercera, the undersecretary of the Segpres, Claudio Alvarado, met at the congressional headquarters with the president of the DC, Fuad Chahin, as part of these efforts. According to the same environment, in the DC, there are deputies such as Miguel Angel Calisto, Daniel Verdessi and Pablo Lorenzini who consider that there are not sufficient legal bases to accuse Cubillos. While there are others, such as Matías Walker, Ivan Flores and Jorge Sabag, who plan to analyze “on their merit” the arguments and then vote “in conscience”.”
Another issue that made noise relates to the way the libel was brought in. The document bears the signatures of 11 opposition deputies, including the head of the DC bench Gabriel Ascencio and the deputy and member of the Education Committee, Mario Venegas. It was presented at 10:28 yesterday, but two minutes later it was requested by the socialist lawyer Gabriel de la Fuente, who returned it after half an hour.
According to El Mercurio, the head of the D.C. MPs’ bench, Gabriel Ascencio, said “to be very upset about what happened” and asked for an explanation from PS bench chief Manuel Monsalve, “who has not answered my calls”, regarding what happened.
In the midst of this controversy, Minister Cubillos has been strongly supported by all the ministers and by the officialism as a whole, who managed to position on Twitter today two hashtags #AcusaciónSinFundamentos and #CubillosValiente as trending topic.
President Sebastián Piñera himself came out to support it with a statement in La Moneda: “The minister has done her job excellently. There may be political differences, but a minister cannot be accused of fulfilling a government program that was voted on by most Chileans,” the Government said.
In the meantime, the owner of mineduc insisted that “the accusation is based on false facts, which have no legal basis and which have been discarded by the Comptroller’s Office and the Council for Transparency”.
In addition, in direct reference to the PS, the party that has led the baton in this offensive, noted that “they accuse us for raising an educational agenda different from that of the PS and for wanting to constitutionally exercise our right to govern.”
The indictment is signed by deputies from all benches, and will be held in the courtroom at next Tuesday’s session. According to the dates, the constitutional indictment could be discussed in October.

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