After the publication in the Official Gazette of the constitutional reform that enables the new constituent process, a series of deadlines were activated that must be met to begin with the implementation of some of the bodies responsible for the process, as well as regulatory aspects.
And this is how the Senate Chamber complied with one of the legal provisions and approved with 42 votes in favor and 2 abstentions, the senators who will make up the Bicameral Commission in charge of preparing a proposal for regulations applicable to the bodies responsible for the constitutional process: the Expert Commission, the Constitutional Council and the Technical Committee on Admissibility.
So did the Lower House. By 129 votes in favor, 11 against and 8 abstentions, those who will make up this instance are the deputies Diego Schalper (RN), Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI), Raúl Soto (PPD), Luis Cuello (PC), Catalina Pérez (RD), Tomás de Rementería (PS), Miguel Ángel Calisto (Ind), Luis Sánchez (Republicans) and Eric Aedo (DC).
Meanwhile, from the Upper House, Luz Ebensperger (UDI), Luciano Cruz-Coke (Evópoli), Paulina Núñez (RN), Rodrigo Galilea (RN), Alfonso De Urresti (PC), Francisco Huenchumilla (DC), Loreto Carvajal (PPD), Claudia Pascual (PC) and Matías Walker (Democrats) were elected.
The congressmen will have five days – since the Commission is constituted this Friday, January 20 – to deliver a proposed regulation.
As explained by the president of the Senate, Álvaro Elizalde, the special sessions that aim to elect the members of the Expert Commission and the Technical Committee on Admissibility respectively will be convened for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
It should be recalled that with regard to the Expert Commission, the Senate must elect 12 members on a joint and closed list that must be approved with the votes of 4/7 of the senators in office.
With regard to the Technical Committee on Admissibility, it is the Chamber of Deputies that makes a proposal of 14 members in a single joint list that must be approved in that branch of Congress with the votes of 4/7 and ratified by the Senate with the same quorum.
Both the Expert Commission and the Technical Committee must be installed on March 6.
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