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 the implementation of some of the bodies responsible for the process, as well as regulatory aspects.
And this is how the Chamber of the Senate complied with one of the legal provisions and approved with 42 votes in favor and 2 abstentions, the senators who will integrate the Bicameral Commission in charge of preparing a proposal for a regulation applicable to the bodies responsible for the constitutional process: the Expert Commission, the Constitutional Council and the Technical Admissibility Committee.
The same did the Lower House. With 129 votes in favor, 11 against and 8 abstentions, the members of this body will be 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).
The congressmen will have five days – from the moment the Commission is constituted this Friday, January 20 – to submit a proposal for a regulation.
As explained by the president of the Senate, Álvaro Elizalde, special sessions will be convened for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week whose purpose is to elect the members of the Expert Commission and the Admissibility Technical Committee respectively.
It should be remembered that with regard to the Expert Commission, the Senate must elect 12 members on a closed and parity list that must be approved with the votes of 4/7 of the senators in office.
Regarding the Technical Admissibility Committee, 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.
