translated from Spanish: Cubillos on its key day: Chamber of Deputies overreaches commission for constitutional indictment

On Tuesday he realizes in the chamber of the Chamber of Deputies the constitutional accusation presented by the opposition against the Minister of Education, Marcela Cubillos, in a new step of this lashing against the secrecy State Aria.
The session will bypass the five legislators who will be part of the committee that will be responsible for assessing the legal merit of the presentation, and which will issue a report that will not be binding – in any case – because the fate of the libel will depend on the vote on the room, where the opposition has a majority. In this scenario, and although the indictment has two signatures of Phalangist deputies (Gabriel Ascencio and Mario Venegas), all eyes are on Christian Democracy.
The government is committed to getting the votes needed to bring down the libel in the DC ranks. The opposition has 83 votes, enough for approval, but there are several Phalangist MPs in doubt. One of them is Miguel Angel Calisto, who yesterday raised that “so far, I have only seen political arguments and those are not arguments that can support a constitutional accusation”.
The Executive has redoubled its arguments against the prosecution. In fact, Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick said yesterday that “it is very serious when institutions and, in this case, a section of the House ceases to fulfil its powers according to the Constitution. It’s very serious because the functioning of democracy is weakened,” he said.
However, since the opposition they have defended the instrument. In this regard, Juan Santana, a member of the Socialist Party, a collective that has carried the baton in this matter, told La Tercera that “this constitutional indictment is far from being used as an electoral instrument and the main reflection of that is that the signatures of the presentation of the text call on the opposition as a whole and not just the PS.”
“The PS raises this accusation because it is the party of former President Bachelet and she raised as a flag the defense and strengthening of public education and that is the flag that we are going to defend. There is a boycott by Mineduc of Bachelet’s educational reform,” Santana said.
Beyer’s support
In this scenario, in defense of Cubillos came the former minister of education of the first government of Sebastián Piñera, Harald Beyer, who in 2013 was removed from his post as a result of a constitutional indictment.
In a letter to El Mercurio, the current rector of Adolfo Ibáñez University argued that the fundamentals of the libel “are so weak, the arguments presented in its five axes so extreme and the common thread of the libel so loaded and manipulated that it cannot be concluded that it cannot be concluded authoritarian populism took over some sections of the opposition. A pitiful spectacle for our democracy. It is to be hoped that this approach will not extend to the whole left.”
The steps
The regulation states that the Secretary of State should then be notified within three days, thus establishing the ban on departure from the country, while this process is being carried out.
From the notification, Minister Cubillos shall have a period of ten days to meet the commission in charge of the indictment, either in a personal or written form.
The case, in turn, from the time of such an appearance, will have a period of six days to study the constitutional indictment and rule on it, then making the libel available to the Corporation Chamber, which will vote on it in October.
The libel consisting of five chapters, focused on the lack of fulfillment of her work as secretary of state, which would constitute a serious violation of the constitution and laws, such as lacking the principle of probity; and no hierarchical control over the coordination and effectiveness of the public policies of the portfolio, including poor control over the Ministry’s budgetary implementation, in the field of public education.

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