“We inform that by virtue of the process initiated against María Eugenia Lorenzini, the Metropolitan Regional Court of the Democratic Revolution has decided to suspend her militancy”, reported this Friday afternoon the party of the councilor of Ñuñoa.
The determination of the official community occurs in the midst of the development of two investigations against the renowned feminist activist, who has been denounced for repeated workplace and sexual harassment, which triggered the opening of a municipal investigationas well as an investigation by the Metropolitan Court of Democratic Revolution, a party in which both militate.
The decision of the community implies that “Her rights and obligations as a member of our party are suspended, and as a result she is completely disassociated from our territory of Ñuñoa”complement in the statement posted by RD Ñuñoa.
Later, the RD published on its social networks a public statement signed by the Political Commission of the National Political Council and the Feminist Front of the DR where, in addition to reiterating their rejection of Councilor Lorenzini’s actions, they make a mea culpa for the way in which the case was addressed in the first instance inside the store.
“We know that as a party we have not responded to the circumstances. That is why we have continued to deepen different actions that guarantee that acts like these are never repeated or remain without sanction “they point out in the statement.
“We repudiate the acts of mistreatment that Councilor Lorenzini committed against her complainant and the attitudes she has had with our colleagues in other spaces of participation, both internally and externally, of the Democratic Revolution,” they add.
In the document, the community recognizes that its internal institutionality “requires greater speed in the processes” and reaffirms the “commitment to seek and provide the necessary improvements to have forceful tools to address this type of situation in a timely manner, taking care at all times of the and the complainants and avoiding their re-victimization”.
The store reported that the national board and its political council have ordered a series of steps for the Lorenzini case: knowing the result of the summary carried out by the Municipality of Ñuñoa, they affirm that all the antecedents were put back in the Supreme Court in a complaint in conjunction with the metropolitan regional directive; As a first remedial measure, they state that professional psychological support was provided to the complainant and report that a reform of the internal organic regulation was approved “to be able to address and sanction this and other types of cases more quickly and quickly.”
According to the statement, In the Political Council of the party, a motion will be voted so that, regardless of the decision of the TS, Lorenzini is not supported by the store as a candidate for any popularly elected position.
The complaints come from an adviser (CE initials, 28 years old), who came to work with Lorenzini on June 28 last -day that she assumed as councilor- after applying through social networks for the position.
According to the background information presented by the complainant, the problems would have started in mid-July and from there a domino effect would have been caused with situations that led to the clarifying processes that the founder of Humanas and La Morada is facing today, institutions that promote the human rights of women.
These facts were verified by the summary carried out by the Municipality of Ñuñoa. After four months of investigation, the veracity of the facts reported by CE and the violation of his psychic integrity were determined, records that were forwarded last October.
“Situations constituting labor abuse were proven” is one of the conclusions of the document issued by the municipal prosecutor, Alison Torres. But also “indications were verified that the councilor María Eugenia Lorenzini had harmful behaviors towards other people, which shows that the complainant is not a specific victim of the way of being or acting of the councilor, but that she has generalized behaviors, words or gestures that degrade the work environment”.
Two days after knowing the result of that summary, RD communicated the delivery of records to the Supreme Court of the Party so that assess the pertinent sanctionss and also apologized for putting the investigation on hold (being a militant, he filed the complaint with the Supreme Court on October 12 and the same entity decided to suspend the process until December 26).