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Chilean Lawmakers Advance Impeachment Effort Against President Piñera

HeadlineNov 11, 2021

Chile’s lower house of Congress has voted to impeach President Sebastián Piñera for violating Chile’s tax and bribery laws. Lawmakers cited irregularities in the 2010 sale of a mining company partially owned by Piñera’s children. The revelations emerged in the Pandora Papers leak. Chile’s Senate will now take up the impeachment motion, which would require two-thirds of senators to pass.

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