The former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rafaela Albuquerque; the peledista deputy Magda Rodriguez and the official Nicholas Hidalgocoincided in declaring that there is no legislative mechanism to sanction the deputy Miguel Gutierrez Diaz until the United States decides his indictment for drug trafficking
Alburquerque, a reformist deputy, specified that the regulations of the Chamber establish that there must be a conviction against Gutiérrez Díaz, since he is presumed innocent, and wait for a sentence that acquits him.
He said that a psychiatrist certified that the deputy has a mental illnessso the Chamber must replace him with another legislator.
For Rodríguez, deputy and psychiatrist, the situation of the deputy must be seen from two points of view (legal and his health), because, “if a person is mentally disabled, it is assumed that he is not in a position to do any kind of of work and less the legislature”.
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He believes that his party should hear the case in the disciplinary court.
He argued that the regulations of the lower house do not provide to separate it until the justice of a verdict.
Deputy Hidalgo stated that in his Modern Revolutionary Party He has not made a decision and the issue has not been touched on in his caucus.
The most recent information about Gutiérrez Díaz, deputy from Santiago for the PRM, when attempting suicide, a Miami court declared it “incompetent” to testify at his trial for allegedly belonging to a transnational drug trafficking network that operated in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and the United States.
