The defense of Karina Oliva and six other former members of the Comunes party filed a protection appeal before the Court of Appeals of Santiago, for their expulsion from the party.
After a Ciper report revealed that seven advisers to Karina Oliva’s campaign for metropolitan governor, including the party’s president, Jorge Ramírez, received 137 million pesos for campaign expenses, the Supreme Court of the community determined the expulsion of Karina Oliva. the militants involved.
In the appeal presented to the court of appeals and consigned by The Mercury an “illegal process” and a “political operation” by the community are accused.
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The brief presented by Oliva’s defense ensures that the political operation would be headed by the deputies Claudia Mix and Camila Rojas, who “promoted the complaints about the irregularities in the reporting of expenses before the Servel through a complaint before the Supreme Court.”
“The appellants are convinced of the political motive that this current has had, typical of what has been pointed out as a political operation led by the two deputies who promoted the complaint and the former secretary of commons who is part of the internal current called ‘ Autonomous Left’ as well as Deputy Camila Rojas. The same group that in 2016 expelled, through the media, the current President of the Republic from the political group Izquierda Autónoma and that today operates in a similar way against the recurrent people, ”says the text.
It adds that “the court, acting as a special commission and influenced by the Temporary Directive, in case number 16-2021 ordered the expulsion of the appellants from the Commons Party.”
“This action disturbs, illegally and arbitrarily, the rights of the appellants, guaranteed in article 19 No. 3, paragraph 5, of the Political Constitution of the Republic, this is the ‘right not to be tried by special commissions ‘”. This, since they argue that the aforementioned instance expelled them “acting as a special commission and influenced from outside” and that “there are serious antecedents that this Court, in its actions, became a special commission or ad hoc Court destined to specify the expulsion of the appellants”, states the document.
