National Renewal Senators, headed by the party’s helmsman, Francisco Chahuán, They stated that, beyond ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) on the pardons granted by President Gabriel Boric, The appeal for administrative invalidation presented to nullify the benefits for those who in his opinion are “common criminals” is still in process.
Chahuan explained that “The President of the Republic pardoned common criminals without indicating it in the decrees, with erroneous quotes from the norms on which he founded them, but we maintain the resource for administrative validation and I hope that he defines if he is on the side of the victims or the perpetrators, on the side of common sense or of those who insist on crime common”.
The legislator stressed that “We abide by the rulings of the Constitutional Court but, as the appeal for invalidation continues, the President still has room to back down.” Likewise, it described as “worrying that other eventual pardons are being processed regarding similar situations, because common criminals cannot be pardoned.”
The Senator Paulina NunezMeanwhile, he maintained that “The rulings of the courts of Justice must always be respected, but that is not why they can always be shared and this is a ruling that we do not share, not because we are in the opposition, but because we know that at least 10 of the 13 criminals had a recommendation, neither more nor less than the Chilean Gendarmerie, for the President not to pardon them”. He assured that “beyond the ruling, there is no doubt that those pardoned are a danger to society and it seems very relevant to me that having a resolution of the TC -therefore, avoiding the legitimate doubt that there was regarding the constitutionality of its decision- the The President can back down because of what worries all Chileans today, which is to be able to live more calmly, recover public order and that those who are a danger to society are where the institutions themselves (Gendarmerie) recommended, acting as President of all Chilean men and women, leaving ideology aside.”
Without questioning the authority of the President or the decision of the TC, the Senator Rodrigo Galilea He stated that “we know that President Gabriel Boric did not act well before the Chileans. Pardons are a presidential power, but they cannot be exercised in any way or be arbitrary.”
According to Galilea, “President Boric is here – and I think the divided decision of the TC is a reflection of this – He acted arbitrarily, he said simply and without giving reasons to these yes and to these no”. Likewise, “he knew, and the Minister of Justice has said so, of the background, the criminal record and the negative report of the Gendarmerie, for which he acted improperly, pardoning under a formula that should never have been allowed by any Court of the Republic.” .
