Four security initiatives have been frozen in mixed commissions for over a year due to the lower chamber's failure to appoint deputies.
The projects include the Rules on the Use of Force, which entered Congress in April 2023 and moved to a mixed commission in May 2025. The main pending discrepancy is whether cases involving Armed Forces personnel will be resolved by military justice.
Congressional sources blame the president of the Chamber, Jorge Alessandri of the UDI, for failing to appoint the required deputies. The Senate designated its representatives last year and formally requested the Chamber to fill the seats in early June.
Alessandri replied that the criterion for forming mixed commissions was approved on Wednesday in a committee meeting and that it is now up to each party to name its members. Other affected bills are the one extending the flagrancia period from 12 to 24 hours and the one requiring identification documents on land journeys.
Deputy Gloria Naveillán criticized the government's lack of urgency, while deputy Jaime Araya noted that the ruling coalition fears lifting bank secrecy in the Economic Intelligence Subsystem project.
