The deputies voted by 66 votes in favor of the constitutional accusation against Jean Pierre Matus, 54 votes against and 14 abstentions.
This afternoon the Chamber of Deputies rejected the origin of the constitutional accusation against Supreme Court judge Jean Pierre Matus.
According to the vote in the room, the deputies voted 66 votes in favor of the constitutional accusation, 54 votes against and 14 abstentions.
As always happens in these cases, the abstentions were added to the votes against, so in the end the vote was 66 votes in favor and 68 against.
The Chamber of Deputies addressed the possible constitutional accusation against the judge of the country’s highest court, after knowing his links with the lawyer Luis Hermosillacurrently in preventive detention after being accused of the crimes of money laundering, bribery and tax fraud.
The lament of the deputy who presented the constitutional accusation
The constitutional accusation against Judge Jean Pierre Matus It was presented by Congressman Eric Aedo (DC), and was based on the fact that according to the legislator the magistrate lied to the countryby denying that he had had conversations with the lawyer Luis Hermosilla, which was later proven to be not true.
After the vote, the parliamentarian stated that “the Chamber has just given a signal today. Only two votes were missing to approve this constitutional accusation“Aedo said.
He also asserted that “there are people from the ruling party who stood down, who abstained, and the signal that has been given is that probity does not matter to this House“I want to say it very clearly,” stressed the legislator.