“They tried to silence me and muddy my honor.” With these words, the former president of the Christian Democracy, Fuad Chahin, refers to the process that he has experienced in recent months. This, after the Supreme Court of the community ordered the expulsion of him from the DC for calling to vote rejection during the plebiscite on September 4, an option contrary to that agreed by the National Board of the party.
in conversation with The counter, the ex-conventional addressed the ruling of the Court of Appeals of Santiago that annulled his expulsion from the community. After his determination, he confirmed that he will not return to DC and that he will join the Democratic Party. As he points out, “they better represent an ideology like the one that DC historically represented.”
“I think that the most unfortunate thing about the Christian Democracy is that it abandoned its doctrine, it abandoned its electorate, its history. It is a party that abandons what its DNA is, it is not worthy that one can continue to be a member of it. I still feel interpreted by the true doctrine, principles and values of the DC”, he pointed out.
“The problem is that today the Christian Democratic Party is very far from that, it is captured by a clique that, in my opinion, has the worst practices, as has been demonstrated with this ruling. And that has nothing democratic, fraternal and less Christian,” he added.
Asked if this “clique” that he mentions is related to Senator Yasna Provoste (DC), with whom he had serious differences in the past, he indicated that “I think everyone knows that she is the one who controls the party’s strings today, through of a directive that is absolutely functional to what it represents”.
In view of the above, Chahin revealed that “I made the decision to join the Democrats, I feel much more interpreted by this political project. I highly respect what is being done from Amarillos and other political forces, but I feel much more interpreted by what the parliamentarians, deputies and senators of Democrats are doing, who also have a growing territorial force, of councilors, who are working in the territory and who today better represent an ideology like the one that historically represented the Christian Democracy”.
Resolution of the Court of Appeals of Santiago that annuls his expulsion from the DC
The Court of Appeals of Santiago accepted a protection appeal presented by Chahin and that annulled the sanction of the Supreme Court of the party against him.
Specifically, the Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santiago, made up of Minister María Loreto Gutiérrez, Minister Fernando Carreño and lawyer (i) Paola Herrera, determined that there was an infringement of due process in the sanction applied.
“That it is not a disputed fact that the appellant was sanctioned by the Supreme Court of the PDC, by means of a resolution of November 2, 2022, by accepting a complaint deduced by several militants of said political party against him, imposing the suspension of his militancy for a period of 60 extendable business days,” the ruling states.
“As noted in the appealed act, the sanction imposed on the plaintiff was pronounced by a court other than the one that was responsible for intervening in its substantiation (natural court), flagrantly infringing the procedural rules established in the PDC statutes, which establish as the competent court to hear in the first instance the complaints made against its militants to the respective Regional Court, it is not up to it at that procedural stage, to intervene in the Supreme Court,” the document added.
In view of the foregoing, said act constitutes “a flagrant violation of due process”, since the former helmsman of the community was tried by a court other than the one that corresponded, “transforming it, by intervening in a procedural stage different from the one that corresponded to him , in a special commission”. In this way, “the pertinent measures must be adopted to put an end to the anomalous situation described.”
After the determination, Chahin pointed out that “there are already two resolutions here, one from the Supreme Court and another from the Santiago Appeals Court and they are in the same line, which is what we have always maintained: that the ‘pseudo’ Supreme Court of the Christian Democracy became a kind of hit man for those who stayed with the political leadership of the DC in a bad way, and not as an entity that could really act in law that would have guaranteed due process, because here there was none” .
“I was persecuted for political reasons, they tried to silence me permanently and they tried to tarnish my honor. And I believe that what has already been resolved by the Court of Appeals of Santiago and also by the Supreme Court, what they do is agree with us from the start. point of view that the action of the DC, through the ‘pseudo’ Supreme Court, has been arbitrary and illegal,” he concluded.
