60% are in favor of the constitutional accusation against President Sebastián Piñera for the Dominga Case, and also 63% of those surveyed consider that it is very important for Congress to investigate the responsibility of the president in the facts, revealed the monthly survey of Ipsos known today.
The report “Claves Ipsos” revealed that the majority of those who are in favor of the libel entered by the opposition against the President are adults aged 30 and over, versus the 18% who are against it. Meanwhile, 15% say they do not know and 6% do not respond.
“At a time of high politicization in the country as a result of both the presidential campaigns in progress and the daily news of the work of the Constitutional Convention, the new information on the Dominga case from the Pandera Papers has had an important effect on Public opinion. Regardless of gender, age or socioeconomic level, citizens are in favor of advancing with the investigation by parliamentarians and by a constitutional accusation. There is no longer tolerance for the suspicion of lack of probity in the authorities and less so in the case of the President ”, says Alejandra Ojeda, director of Public Studies at Ipsos Chile.
If the accusation against Piñera advances, the majority of those polled believe that Chile (37%) and the citizens (22%) will win, over the presidential candidates (10%) and opposition parties (13%).
In relation to the presidential candidates, the people consulted believe that the accusation will favor the standard-bearer of Approve Dignidad Gabriel Boric (31%) and the candidate of New Social Pact, Yasna Provoste (21%) and that the least benefited will be the representative of Chie We can +, Sebastián Sichel (5%).
The latter, in any case, although he does not support the constitutional accusation – and said he hopes that President Sebastián Piñera is innocent -, he did make an ethical question and said he was in favor of an investigative commission so that everything is clarified.
There is also a 10% who consider that the advance of the accusation will favor the standard bearer of the Republican Party, José Antonio Kast.
Libelo in review commission
The libel, which is currently being processed in a review committee of the Chamber of Deputies, arose as a result of the journalistic investigation “Pandora Papers”, regarding the sale of the Dominga Mine and the operation between the Piñera family and the friend of President Carlos Alberto Délano in the British Virgin Islands.
According to the text entered by the opposition, the constitutional accusation against President Sebastián Piñera is justified for having “infringed the principle of probity” and compromising the “honor of the country”. “It is not an isolated act of greed or use of power for their own benefit,” they point out in the opposition, recalling the history of cases at odds with probity that the President has starred in.
As of Wednesday, October 27, the commission has invited 47 people, of whom at least a third did not attend, among them the National Prosecutor Jorge Abbott and the former prosecutor Manuel Guerra – who led the first criminal investigation of the Exalmar case, where he was the edge Dominga.
The deadline for the President to present his response expires on October 28 and the commission will receive President Piñera’s lawyers on Thursday.
The instance will meet until next Friday, the day where the non-binding report will be voted on, which will then be taken to the Chamber of the Corporation.
