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Impeachment trial to remove Piñera from office faces long day in the Senate

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The impeachment trial that could end in the removal of the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, faces this Tuesday, its last day in the Senate with an unprecedented vote that could extend until early Wednesday morning.

At 9.00 AM (local time), the Upper House began to analyze the accusation against the ruler, initiated for alleged irregularities in the sale in the British Virgin Islands of a controversial mining project at the beginning of his first term, a scandal revealed in Pandora's papers investigation.

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