The senators of National Renewal (RN), Francisco Chahuán and Paulina Núñez, presented an administrative appeal to seek to annul the pardons delivered by President Gabriel Boric to Luis Castillo and the former frontista Jorge Mateluna.
Specifically, the appeal points out that “the cases that deserve special detention and that ultimately constitute the factual assumption of illegality, are the pardons granted to the convicted Mr. Luis Castillo and Mr. Jorge Mateluna, who have an extensive criminal record.”
Likewise, it questions the “legality” of the signed decrees, despite the position of the Government of President Boric, which insists that the process was carried out legitimately. According to parliamentarians, the decrees are not signed by the head of state.
“In both decrees whose illegality is intended to be portrayed, no reasons are given to explain why President Gabriel Boric Font himself did not sign the decrees that grant pardons or ultimately what were the scope of the delegation that he made over the minister (Ríos), incurring in an eventual first formal illegality in the configuration of the act, in whose content the proper motivation to carry it out in this way is not explicit,” the document states.
It should be noted that from Chile Vamos they also filed an appeal with the Comptroller General of the Republic so that the Ministry of Justice provides more details of the pardons delivered. Likewise, it did so before the Constitutional Court (TC), questioning the figure of pardon as such.
