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The Chilean Senate rejected on Tuesday the constitutional accusation sent by the deputies to the Senate to impeach President Sebastián Piñera for the case of the sale of a mining company in 2010, which according to the "Pandora Papers" took place in a tax haven, and the president will remain in office.
With 24 votes in favor, 18 against and one abstention, the promoters of the impeachment - opposition parliamentarians - did not achieve the necessary majority of 29 votes to remove the president from office. With this result, the process is closed without any political consequences for Piñera.
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"The defense has been convincing in denying each one of the facts that are established in the grounds for this impeachment trial," said the pro-government senator Francisco Chahuán.
The president was accused of violating the principle of probity and the right to live in a pollution-free environment and of having compromised the honor of the nation, after the terms under which the Dominga mining company was sold by a company owned by his children in 2010 were revealed by the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in a case known as "Pandora's Papers."
The indictment had been approved in the Chamber of Deputies the previous week, in a marathon session that lasted almost 24 hours.
In the Palacio de La Moneda, the seat of the Executive, the applause was heard when, mathematically, the pro-government senators had enough support for the rejection of the indictment, even though there were still a dozen legislators to argue their vote.
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