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With three videos, the reappeared Pablo Longueira launched his YouTube channel to deepen his campaign “I approve, but not from zero” that started over the weekend, when in an interview with The Mercury announced his decision to campaign for the Approve option in the October 25 plebiscite, stand as a candidate for the Constitutional Convention and run for the presidency of the UDI.
The tactic youtuber de Longueira, with the videos titled “New Constitution Agreement”, “October 25 Plebiscite” and “Constitutional or Mixed Convention”, aims to “transform the October 25 plebiscite into a great reunion where we will close our transition to democracy, where we will give way to a New Constitution, rescuing the best of a tremendous Constitution made in the Government of the Armed Forces (1980-2022) ”.
Under the slogan “I approve, but not zero”, the axis of the message of the accused in the SQM case is to pour all the energy into the Constituent Assembly that is elected next April and not in the plebiscite, for which he even appealed to the former Concertation to replicate its strategy and to be able to reissue the policy of the agreements of the 90s in the drafting of the New Constitution.
“We cannot continue to advance towards the plebiscite in the way that we are doing. The country is going through a moment of great uncertainty, we are playing in this plebiscite and the convention next year, the 30, 40 or 50 years the country will move forward ”, Longueira says in the first of the videos to announce her position.
“Let’s leave all the energy of this plebiscite for next year, where we have to choose those who will represent us for this new Constitution without fear (…). It is very easy to rant about the Rejection, but it is time to perspire ”, he indicated.
According to Longueira, he has already shared his view on the choice of the conventional with leaders of the sector and José Antonio Kast, to whom he stated that “we have to have a common strategy on the center-right. This is an election where the parties do not have to compete, let’s put an end to the differences, we have to bring the best of our world as conventional ”.
The rules of the game indicate that the 155 members of the Constituent Convention will be elected with the electoral system of the Chamber of Deputies, so the former senator proposes to put together a list of excellence and bring 28 strong candidates in the 28 districts “as if they were candidates to the Senate ”, among those he is running. “And below us we drag with our votes the best constitutionalists, women, representatives of indigenous peoples, environmental experts,” and so on.
“With this strategy at least we can get 70 of those 155 and those who want a Bolivarian Constitution we will tell them that they do not have the votes. And if the Concertación decides to do the same and 28 leaders of the Concertación go and their technical teams also go below, we will have more than 66 percent and we will create a great Constitution (…). Hopefully the Concertación will do so, which, unfortunately, is being absorbed by this undemocratic left ”, he postulated.
Message to the right
Addressing his sector, the former minister indicates that “I start from the base that not a few are outraged with me”, with his statements at the weekend, but he turns to the right that “we are the only political sector that is divided … and not we can continue like this, because a plebiscite has to be faced with unity ”.
“I have never been for the Rejection, it does not seem to me the way to defend ideas (…). The Rejection does not defend any idea ”, he adds to emphasize later that“ a plebiscite that has two options, there must be two large blocks defending both options and that no longer happened ”.
According to Longueira, there is a “silent majority” in the country and “I have no doubt that 80% of Chileans want an Approval but not from scratch, an Approval where we want the best of this Constitution to make another one (…), but not from a blank page. The Bolivarians are clear what they want ”.
Then, he maintains that “he would never have made this decision if we had all been for one option”, especially in a scenario where the “Government is in the box and does not take a position”.
In this context, Longueira recalls that “in the 1988 plebiscite, President Pinochet won 43%, and many presidents would like that result. This 43% result was essential for us to have a successful transition so that the armed forces that went to rescue the country in 1973, in the face of the call of the citizens, returned to their work in a peaceful and orderly transition, and that is how it happened. And with that result, the modernizing work of the Armed Forces Government was removed. If in that plebiscite, that result had been 75% for No, 25% for Yes, even 80-20, there would have been no stone on stone ”.
From his perspective, he predicts that “we are going to a plebiscite where, given the division that exists in our sector and the indifference of our Government to support one option or another, it is 80% for the Approval and 20% for the Rejection, being generous ( …) And if the Rejection gets 20%, there will be no article of the current Constitution ”.
According to Longueira, “it is most likely that those who want a Bolivarian Constitution are even discussing with us whether we are going to keep the huemul on the shield or change it for the ‘matapacos dog,’ that is the level we are at”.
“I call you to reflect, what we have to act is to unite so that this plebiscite is irrelevant, it is a democratic party, we are all for approval, and then we go to the convention (…) that is where our ideas are defended. Let’s not vote for the mixed that the current parliamentarians continue there. This is the way to defend freedom, this is the way to defend this Constitution that will be remembered as the Constitution of the Armed Forces. (…), An extraordinary Constitution that has allowed the country to jump ”, he concluded.
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