Piñera’s constitutional decalogue did not convince much: opposition warned that “it is too similar to the current Constitution”



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Faced with the 10 points indicated by the President, the president of the Christian Democracy, Fuad Chahín, assured that he shares some of the proposals of Piñera’s decalogue, however, he questioned that there is no focus on the guarantee of fundamental rights. He said that, in general, there are many things to share, interesting things, such as the issue of sustainability and citizen participation that is incorporated. “But there are things that are really more of the same, for example how it addresses the right to education and the right to health, “said the Falangist helmsman.

Heraldo Muñoz, president of the PPD, added that the essential points of the President for a new Constitution “do not represent anything new”, and, in his opinion, “do not differ substantially from the current Constitution.” In addition, he criticized that “there is nothing of a state of solidarity and social rights” and there is “zero mention of the protection of our Ocean, nothing regarding an alternative political regime (for example, semi-presidential), no reference to water. they guarantee rights and a specific decentralization regime is not specified, etc. “.

Álvaro Elizalde, president of the PS, joined in the criticism and commented that “it is time to listen to the constituents, that is, to the citizens, and not to the leaders.” “That is what the constituent process is about, listening to the sovereign: the people,” he said. And it is that for the socialist helmsman, the President still does not understand the social and political process that Chile is going through. “Its decalogue is a ‘simple rehash’ of the provisions of the current Constitution, which does not take care of the deep citizen demands, such as social rights, a dignified and universal health system, a true social security system, an effective protection of the environment. It reproduces the neoliberal principle of subsidiarity. In short, more of the same when Chile demands profound changes, “he lashed out.

Catalina Pérez, president of the DR, pointed out that more than a list of generalities, “we need to know if the President and his sector are going to stop hindering the changes that our country needs.” She said that if they do not want to put an end to the subsidiary State, if they do not want to recover natural resources, if they are going to put obstacles in the way of decentralization or their ideological blindness will prevent them from distributing the cake.

From the other side, the government spokesman, Jaime Bellolio, explained this afternoon, in an interview with Channel 13, that, although in the ruling party there are discrepancies between approving or not in the plebiscite, they agree on the points presented by the President, to Unlike the opposition, which, he said, “have many differences” between them. “Within Chile Vamos and the Government there is a difference of opinion about the Approval or Rejection, but we do not have substantive differences with respect to the contents, and here is a proposal with 10 essential contents. On the other hand, the opposition has not wanted to talk about content, and they have not wanted because they have many differences between them, “he said.

Bellolio wondered “what do they really think (in the opposition) about the right of parents to educate their children, about health areas, about areas of private property, about the independence of the Central Bank … There are radical differences within the left, “he said.



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