The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic decided to refrain from issuing a pronouncement on the legality of the pardons granted by President Gabriel Boric to 12 convicted of crimes in the framework of the social outbreak and to the exfrentista Jorge Mateluna.
The decision comes after on January 9, a group of UDI deputies filed a request asking the agency to rule on these acts. A day later, the institution requested the respective background to the Ministry of Justice.
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The Comptroller’s Office explained that his decision is due to the fact that this week a group of senators from Chile Vamos and the Democrats movement filed a series of requirements – due to the same situation – before the Constitutional Court.
“On January 16, 2023, several senators deducted before the Constitutional Court seven requirements of unconstitutionality in relation to the aforementioned exempt decrees, which were accepted for processing by that magistracy on January 24, 2023, and declared admissible on January 26, 2023,” the agency justified.
“Considering that the requirements submitted to the knowledge of the TC affect the same matter as the requests submitted to this Control Body, as well as the intimate relationship between all the administrative acts in question, this Office of the Comptroller General must refrain from issuing the required pronouncement, by virtue of the provisions of Article 6, third paragraph, of Law No. 10,336, on the Organization and Attributions of this Supervisory Entity, a rule that prescribes, as far as is relevant, that ‘The Comptroller’s Office will not intervene or inform matters that by their nature are properly litigious, or that are subject to the knowledge of the Courts of Justice, “they add.
It should be remembered that the granting of the benefit by President Gabriel Boric generated discomfort in the opposition. The event even caused Chile Vamos and the Republican Party to leave the security table promoted by the Executive. To which is added a constitutional accusation against the former Minister of Justice, Marcela Ríos.
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