The Comptroller General of the Republic resolved to refrain from issuing a pronouncement on the legality of the pardons granted by President Gabriel Boric to 12 convicted of crimes in the context of the social outbreak and to the former frontista Jorge Mateluna.
The decision comes after a group of UDI deputies filed a request on January 9 requesting the agency to rule on these acts. A day later, the institution requested the respective records from the Ministry of Justice.
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The Comptroller’s Office explained that its decision is due to the fact that this week a group of senators from Chile Vamos and the Democratic movement entered a series of requirements -for the same situation- before the Constitutional Court.
“On January 16, 2023, various senators filed seven unconstitutionality requirements before the Constitutional Court in relation to the aforementioned exempt decrees, which were accepted for processing by that magistracy on January 24, 2023, and declared admissible on January 24, 2023. January 26, 2023,” the agency justified.
“Considering that the requirements submitted to the knowledge of the TC affect the same matter on which the requests presented before this Control Body are concerned, as well as the intimate relationship between all the administrative acts in question, this Comptroller General must refrain from issue the required pronouncement, by virtue of the provisions of article 6, third paragraph, of Law No. 10,336, on the Organization and Attributions of this Supervisory Entity, a norm that prescribes, in what matters, that ‘The Comptroller will not intervene nor will it inform the matters that by their nature are properly of a litigious nature, or that are submitted to the knowledge of the Courts of Justice”, they complement.
It should be remembered that the granting of the benefit by President Gabriel Boric generated discomfort in the opposition. The fact even caused Chile Vamos and the Republican Party to leave the security table promoted by the Executive. To which is added a constitutional accusation against the former Minister of Justice, Marcela Ríos.
