The Social Green Regionalist Federation (FRVS) reported that the presidential delegate of Arica and Parinacota, Ricardo Sanzana; together with the regional councilor Iván Paredes; and the Regional Director of Corfo, Fernando Cabrales, would risk their expulsion from the official party, after they were notified along with 4 other militants that they are suspended from their rights as members of the political store, by first instance decision of the Disciplinary Court of the community, before which they were denounced for “serious misconduct”.
In addition to Sanzana, Paredes and Cabrales, Andrea Pérez and Luis Pizarro, advisors to the Presidential Delegation, were also suspended; and Alejandro Páez and Gina Valenzuela, members of the FRVS board in the northern region.
“During this period, the 7 sanctioned militants may not act on behalf of the FRVS or represent the store in any political or public instance,” the FRVS said in a statement.
Regarding the accusations, it transpired that they would have to do with situations of harassment, mistreatment, workplace harassment, misogyny, abuse of power, abandonment of duties, and invalidation and ignorance of the party organization, all of which would violate the norms established in the statutes. and the party’s code of ethics.
In turn, the FRVS explained that the now suspended militants had agreed to question the probity and legitimacy of the current national leadership, the national presidency and the regional presidency through a complaint filed with the Electoral Service on the past 17 November, with which they also sought to invalidate the national electoral process of the FRVS carried out in May 2022, among other actions. However, the request was declared inadmissible by the Servel in its resolution 0895 of December 14 of this year.
The suspension measure will be in force for 90 days while the investigation process lasts; time in which the suspended persons may present their defenses before the internal court, to guarantee due process.
The sanctions could even lead to their final expulsion, as established in the current statutes of the Social Green Regionalist Federation.
It is worth mentioning that Ricardo Luis Sanzana Oteíza, between 2015 and 2018, was the provincial governor of Arica, during the second government of Michelle Bachelet. And on February 28, 2022, President Gabriel Boric appointed him as the regional presidential delegate of Arica and Parinacota, a position that he began to hold from the beginning of his government, on March 11 of the same year.
