“The challenge of fs.2.023 is accepted and, consequently, it is provided that the Electoral Service must exclude From the Audited Electoral Register Mr. Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio,” says in its conclusions a resolution of the First Electoral Tribunal of the Metropolitan Region on a request by the lawyer Mario Esquivel, who requested to leave the leader of the PRO out of the electoral roll, under the investigative process of the OAS case.
Although Enríquez-Ominami was acquitted of the case, the TER decided to suspend his right to vote, which prevents him from being a candidate for La Moneda. “The foregoing, because, according to the claimant, since there is an order to open an Oral Trial, firm or enforceable, it would be appropriate to apply the suspension of the right to vote to the contested of the orders,” the document says.
“It must be concluded that the suspension of the right to vote has existed as a permanent institution in our constitutional legislation since the dawn of the Republic, without shocks or objections to its constitutionality,” the text adds.
Enríquez-Ominami, at a press point, announced that he will appeal to the Election Qualification Tribunal (Tricel) and called the determination absurd and unfair. “Two weeks ago a court, unanimously, recognized what I fought for 7 years: my total and absolute innocence. Today, an electoral tribunal is going to seek bureaucratic processes of 2020, of June, and challenges a progressive and change, democratic candidacy. It’s violence, it’s unfair, it’s absurd,” he said.
Read the full resolution here.
