About a week the right was delayed in having white smoke in an agreement to occupy one of the deputy vice presidencies in the Constitutional Convention, where they defined sharing the position, positioning Raúl Celis from RN for 3 months and then, for the next three months, to the evopoli Hernán Larraín Matte.
In this scenario, the constituent of the PC Bárbara Sepúlveda warned that the pair in question should be declared inadmissible or corrected, since the pairs must be equal, and because she also emphasized that there is no figure in the regulation that allows the resignation of the deputy vice presidency, which is the action that would allow the transfer of the position from Celis to Larraín Matte.
“I’m sorry to spoil the party, but Article 37 of the Convention’s regulations expressly states that the pair must be equal. Therefore, this pair must be corrected or declared inadmissible,” wrote the constituent, who stated that no comparison can be made. with the case of Rodrigo Rojas Vade, because when he resigned from that position the current regulation of the CC was not yet in force.
“What they indicate with the resignation is also an innovation that is not regulated in the regulation. In the regulation, the only thing that is regulated in article 41 is the revocation of vice presidencies, with a third of the constituents in office That they can request the revocation of any of these charges, but it must also be for serious and duly justified reasons. The resignation does not exist in our regulations, “explained Sepúlveda.
The constituent affirmed that “what they are trying to do cannot be done.”
The response of the center-right
The RN constituent Raúl Celis – who hopes to assume one of the deputy vice presidencies for 3 months – replied. He clarified that it is presented, for its period, in a parity with the constituent Geoconda Navarrete (Evopoli) and that they consulted the Secretariat of the Convention before informing the formula, “who agree with this interpretation”, according to the agreement.
The interpretation includes that “during the more than six months that we have been in the Convention, the interpretation that has been made is that the internal charges are waivable, without prejudice to the fact that there is no express regulation of them. Article 41 does not regulate the resignation either, but a specific hypothesis of revocation of any position at the table, “according to Celis.
The constituent pointed out that these resignations not regulated by regulations have already been validated before by the CC. “Just to name two examples, Rodrigo Rojas resigned from his position as deputy vice president, and Natalia Henríquez gathered the sponsorships to replace him. Exactly the same would happen in this case. Victorino Antilef also resigned from his position as coordinator in the Indigenous Participation Commission, and he was replaced by Isabella Mamani, despite the fact that the Regulations do not expressly regulate the resignation of this position, “he explained.
