The Supreme Court of the Communist Party sanctioned former deputy Hugo Gutiérrez and suspended his membership of the community for a year after he supported a candidate from a different party during the last parliamentary elections.
Specifically, the Supreme Court suspended Gutiérrez’s militancy for a total of one year, after he supported the candidate of the Social Green Regionalist Federation (FRVS), Enzo Morales, instead of Matías Ramírez, from his same party.
In this way, the body established a sentence of one year of suspended militancy, so Gutiérrez will not be able to exercise his position as a member of the Central Committee or the Regional Committee of Tarapacá. Likewise, he may not be part of the party’s internal elections or appear as its candidate, among others.
“Comrades Hugo Gutiérrez Gálvez, Karl Harder, Alfonso Cáceres and Jorge Olivares, who despite their status as Party cadres, with positions of public representation and/or political leadership, directly supported the candidacy for deputy of Enzo Morales Norambuena, who presented by the Green Regionalist Party, subtracting from the campaign in favor of comrade Matías Ramírez Pascal, candidate of the Party, sowing confusion among the militants and those who support the Party in the Second District of the Tarapacá region and damaging the unity of the Party with these acts”, maintains the Supreme Court.
Given that it was the Supreme Court that adopted the measure and not the Regional Court, the former deputy would not have a higher instance to which to appeal. Along the same lines, as he reported Radio BiobíoGutiérrez seeks to appeal the nullity of the process, since, as he mentions, he was not notified of the accusation, so he did not have a place to make his defenses.
