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The Mixed Commission finally approved reserve 17 seats for indigenous peoples within the 155 quotas of the Constitutional Convention.
Deputies and senators also voted for discuss separately the additional chair for the Afro-descendant tribal community, subject that kept the discussion locked throughout the day.
The 17 seats are broken down into seven for the Mapuche people, two for the Aymara, and one for one of the following: rapa nui, quechua, atacameño, diaguita, colla, kawéskar, yagán and chango.
Mixed Commission reaches an agreement ratified by voting: 17 seats reserved for native peoples will be proposed within the 155 of the constitutional convention, and a quota for the Afro-descendant people that will be voted on separately.
Deputy Walker abstained.
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) December 11, 2020
Specifically, the agreement was reached in private conversations – via Zoom – carried out when the session was suspended. When this was resumed, Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC) announced the consensus proposal, which was later ratified by nine of the members of the commission, while Deputy Matías Walker, also a Falangist, abstained.
Walker argued that “there is a moment when decisions have to be made and that one sees that one cannot take positions further, because the historical possibility of having seats reserved for native peoples may fall.”
In this context, he considered that “it was important not to give the possibility of separate voting in the case of Afro-descendant peoples, and to consider them within 18, because it is most likely that (that point) will be rejected.”
In the proposal also It was ratified, in terms of inclusion, that each pact must include at least 5 percent of applications from people with disabilities.
It remains for the parliamentarians to reach an understanding regarding the wording of the proposal and the criteria to be applied by the Servel to reduce the seats in the various districts where indigenous peoples are more overrepresented.
THE SLOW PROGRESS OF THE DEBATE BEFORE THE AGREEMENT
The Mixed Commission had already voted on a formula early Tuesday morning: 18 seats, nine supernumerary and nine within the 155 conventional ones. However, in the ruling party they advanced their rejection in the following procedures because the opposition had imposed its majority in that instance.
In Chile Vamos they insisted that reserved seats should be within the number of conventional defined in the reform that enabled the constituent process and that was approved in the Plebiscite.
Both the ruling party and the opposition have highlighted that during the development of this extensive debate they have been making concessions in their proposals: Chile Vamos first spoke of only 3 seats, then it rose to 8, to reach the 15 it currently proposes, always within 155 conventional.
In the opposition, for its part, of the 24 supranumerary positions that it proposed, last week it lowered its aspiration to 20, to finally approach 18, half supranumerary and half within 155, a number that was evacuated by the mixed commission.
He government, for its part, has chosen not to intervene directly with proposals in this discussion, but insisting on the need for an agreement so that indigenous peoples are not excluded from the Convention, which would be a “historical error”.
A HISTORICAL MILESTONE
Following the consensus tonight, the Minister of Pressec, Cristián Monckeberg, He highlighted the historical importance of the agreement reached by senators and deputies after marathon days of negotiation.
“This is something historic, which is going to make a huge difference in what our political history has been with the indigenous peoples. We all made history, “said the Secretary of State at the session.
“Beyond the disputes, troubles and late nights, it was worth it the result that is being thrown today, “he added.
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