The judge who arrived in 2018 at the Supreme Court saw in the last hours how the highest court decided her future in the Judiciary, while on the sidelines she suffered a crushing defeat with the approval of the constitutional accusation in the Lower House.
Ángela Vivanco, Minister of the Supreme Court, saw in the last 24 hours how her stay in the Judiciary was sentenced, after the Chamber of Deputies approved the constitutional accusation against him, while the highest court resolves his removal notebook.
The judge, who arrived at the Supreme Court in 2018, He did not even want to attend the presentation of his defense arguments before the full court, made up of Cristóbal Osorio, Daniel Contreras and Patricio Moreno.in addition to Juan Carlos Manríquez, those who will have one hour to make their defenses and respond to the accusations of intervening in the appointment of the conservator of Real Estate of Viña del Mar and Concón, in addition to the National Prosecutor; irregularities in the processing of the Belarusian Doll border; intervention in the appointment of ministers and processing of cases with lawyer Luis Hermosilla; and the delivery of information on cases related to the Armed Forces and the Carabineros.
Hours before, Ángela Vivanco saw how the Chamber of Deputies transversally supported the constitutional accusation against her, for notable abandonment of duties, which passed to the Senate and will begin to be heard on November 15. This, despite his attempts to disqualify 62 deputies from voting.
In his presentation before the parliamentarians, his defender Juan Carlos Manríquez questioned the legality of the evidence that supports the libel against his client, ensuring that only nine messages of the 409 conversations he had with Luis Hermosilla have some interest and that the three used to defend the accusation are decontextualized.
Along with this, he rejected Minister Vivanco’s interference in appointments of positions. On this point, he argued that the Lower House cannot vote with “four rumors and two half-truths.”
However, this did not change the perception of the legislators and by 97 votes in favor, 25 against and 20 abstentions, the admissibility of the constitutional accusation against him was approved and the Senate will be in charge of ratifying – or not – his dismissal. of the position and the impossibility of holding public office for five years.
Faced with this adverse scenario that will mark his departure from the Judiciary, His defense is already analyzing appealing to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), as Cristóbal Osorio advanced, ensuring that the libel against him was unconstitutional in form and substance, but showing that the final word belongs to Ángela Vivanco herself.