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Mayors of all opposition parties signed this monday a agreement to promote citizen participation in the constituent process, after the triumph of the Approval in the Plebiscite.
“United and united in the Constituent“It is called the pact signed by the communal heads of both Santiago and the regions. Among the participants are the mayors Daniel Jadue (Recoleta), Jorge Sharp (Valparaíso), Gonzalo Durán (Independencia), Sadi Melo (El Bosque) and Maximiliano Ríos (Lo Prado), among others.
After the plebiscite, we met opposition mayors and mayors to propose opening the constituent process to the torrent of participation that was expressed yesterday. UNITY will only be possible from the territories and there Chilean municipalism has much to contribute. pic.twitter.com/fguOA3jaTj
– Jorge Sharp #Approve (@JorgeSharp) October 26, 2020
One of them was also the communal chief of Renca, Claudio Castro, who pointed out that the new Constitution “must be built, written by citizens who are specifically elected to do so … We want to give here a sign of unity.”
In the same way he did Mayor of La Cisterna, Santiago Rebolledo: “We hope that our political parties, the social movements that are opposition, are articulated together with municipalism to face our programmatic challenges. We call for unity, only unity will give us victory.”
Meanwhile, the mayor of La Pintana, Claudia Pizarro (DC), also a signatory, appreciated that citizens have expressed themselves this Sunday, but stressed that parity is needed to move forward.
Finally, the owner of Peñalolén, Carolina Leitao, indicated that “we must come together to define what are the priority issues that affect our communities to work on equity, security, childhood, health and education. They are priority issues that we, who are in the territory, go to continue promoting “.
Monday🔵 Santiago. Mayors and mayors of the different oppositions call for citizen participation in the Constitutional Convention and sign an agreement “United in the Constituent Assembly” // @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/iz8AxguZOo
– Jean Claude Penjean (@JCPenjean) October 26, 2020
For its part, Marcelo luna (PPD), councilor for La Cisterna, emphasized that “it is in the people, the ordinary citizen, the neighbors, where there is social injustice. It is they who suffer it and we cannot not listen to them, we must make them part of this In them and in them are the ideas and proposals of how the dignity they need should be, and that is why we also call to reactivate councils, dialogue instances, meetings with neighborhood councils, clubs for the elderly “.
Assemblies and councils
Since Social Unit, which brings together different unions and groups related to the environment, feminism, health and human rights, carried out a call for the parties not to take over the process constituent.
“That this devastating number that achieved the option for the Constitutional Convention shows that people want to be a protagonist and that we are not going to allow the political parties to be once, the same as always, that end up dictating how things are done in Chile “said the Social Unit spokeswoman, Carolina Espinoza.
Through this mechanism, implement assemblies and councils for communities and society to express their concerns and ideas for the constituent process.
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