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This monday in The coin the first cabinet council headed by the president, Sebastián Piñera, after knowing the result of the Plebiscite.
After the meeting, three of the ministers offered a press point to publicize the position that the Government will take regarding the constituent process that has already begun.
The first to speak was the Interior Minister, Victor Perez Varela, who took advantage of the instance to highlight the tranquility in which the democratic exercise was carried out.
“Each of the institutions responsible for this matter rose to the occasion: the Electoral Service, the Armed Forces, Carabineros, the members, the delegates of the electoral boards … each and every one of those who participated guaranteed Chileans a free expression, calm and safe as the Government raised it from the first moment ”, emphasized the chief of staff.
On the celebrations that took place in different parts of the country, and whose nerve center was the Plaza Baquedano, Minister Pérez stressed that they were mostly carried away in a calm and orderly manner.
“At night the celebration also had its happy component, a democratic party. Only some criminals who in some places tried to loot, tried to attack Carabineros and tried to disturb public order, but the great majority that came out in the different cities of the country to demonstrate did so in a good way, “said the authority.
“Yesterday was a democratic exercise, violence was left out, violence was defeated and the country defined and decided on a path and that path the Government and all the political actors have to abide by it ”, Víctor Pérez also remarked.
Legislative agenda
Then it was the minister’s turn Secretary General of the Presidency, Cristián Monckeberg, who commented that during the cabinet council the legislative agenda of the Government was very present, ensuring that there are urgent matters that cannot wait for the new constitution.
“There are many priorities and there are relevant issues that are being processed in Congress and that it is obviously in the interest of the Government to move them forward because they are concern,” Monckeberg said, noting that the President asked them, and particularly him, speed up the processing of the minimum wage, migration law and pension reform.
The Government is sure that these are issues that are important to the public, said the minister, and therefore “require an immediate response.”
The challenges of La Moneda
Finally the Government spokesperson, Jaime Bellolio, revealed the six key points that La Moneda defined for the remainder of Piñera’s term. Along with this, he highlighted the climate in which the Plebiscite was held.
“As a government today we woke up with the pride of having accomplished a task. And this is that the Plebiscite was carried out in the best possible way and that it had a very high participation, “said the authority.
Agree Bellolio, recover the 2 million jobs lost by the pandemic, reactivate the economy, combat the pandemic, reform pensions, advance citizen security and carry out the next electoral events They are the priority of the Executive.
Regarding the triumph of the Approval and the Constitutional Convention, Bellolio said that they also mean “A reflection for those of us who were in Congress and for those of us who are today in the cabinet”.
“We are beginning the moment of true democratic reconciliation, it is the moment of unity, it is the moment of dialogue, This is not the time for division, It is not the time for the spurious fight, It is not the time when some want to jump on the victory bandwagon. of which they never even wanted to happen ”, the La Moneda spokesman also said, summoning – although without naming – the Communist Party.
“Let us remember that there are some who voted against the existence of the Plebiscite, They did not want to sign the agreement of that November 15th. They tried to put restrictions on Congress so that it would not even be put to a vote, ”he warned.
“I call for us to have a true democratic reconciliation, that we have dialogue, that we meet in the urgencies of the people and not in the small politics that only distances the citizens from what the true politics that is life in common, ”he also added.
To finish, Minister Bellolio emphasized that they will participate in the constituent process because they will not be “mere observers”, calling for the opposition not to censor them.
“We now have a role as a Government in accompanying this constituent process as provided by the Constitution and of course we are not neutral regarding the constitutional content,” he stated.
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