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The long debate in the Chilean Senate this Tuesday concluded with a vote in which the deputies decided not to remove the country’s president, Sebastián Piñera. The impeachment trial, which had already passed through the lower house, did not reach the two-thirds majority with which the president could have been removed from office. The president was accused of committing irregularities in the sale of a mining company.
End of the impeachment process for Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. The Senate vote fell short of the two-thirds needed to remove him. So the president will remain in power.
The determination came after a long debate in which the deputies defended and attacked the president. Piñera had been accused of alleged irregularities in the sale of the Dominga copper and iron mine in 2010. A scandal that arose from the journalistic investigation ‘Papeles de Pandora’, which revealed transactions abroad and in ‘offshore’ companies by political figures from around the world.
The accusations led to the country’s lower house passing his impeachment process last week.
However, with the rejection of his dismissal by the Senate, the president may end his term of office that ends in March 2022.
The decision is given five days before the country’s elections, in which Chileans will decide who will be Piñera’s successor, who cannot run for a new reelection.
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