After the Senator Mario Castaño will accept charges for acts of corruption that would have been committed in several departments of the country and it was confirmed that he will be sentenced for said act, the Congress of the Republic proceeded to decree the so-called ’empty chair’ for this case.
This figure prevents the Liberal Party, a group to which Castaño belonged, from replacing that seat, because the Constitution establishes when it comes to crimes committed against the Public Administration, the seat must remain empty.
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The board of directors of the Senate of the Republic issued a resolution which complies with this postulate and applies the ’empty chair’ for this case.
“To comply with the provisions of the second paragraph of article 134 of the Political Constitution, Regarding the seat of Dr. Mario Alberto Castaño, identified with citizenship card 75,067,786, for the reasons given in the consideration part of this administrative act. Consequently, there will be no place to call for his replacement, ” indicates the resolution.
The decision was officially communicated to the now former senator Castaño, to the plenary of the Senate, to the Supreme Court of Justice and also to the Administrative Directorate of the Congress of the Republic to carry out the pertinent steps.
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“Notify the General Administrative Directorate, the Rapporteurship Section, the Human Resources Division, the Goods and Services, Registry and Control, Budget, Payroll and National Police – Congress Division, so that, within the framework of their powers, they carry out the corresponding procedures as a consequence of the dismissal of Senator Mario Alberto Castaño.”he assures.
After having decreed the ’empty chair’, the Congress of the Republic must suspend the payment of the salary to the former congressman and he must remove from their positions the people that the political leader had hired in his UTL.
