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In the former National Congress, the definitive call to the opposition took place, in which various leaders of civil society demanded the agreement of a common list of candidates for the Constitutional Convention.
The table made up of union, political, cultural and academic representatives; He warned about how experience and mathematics have shown that the political dispersion of the opposition “only favors the real possibility that the constituents of the Rejection, completely aligned, obtain the majority necessary to exercise the veto in the discussion of a new Constitution.”
With shame, admits Adriana Muñoz, president of the Senate, “we all hugged on November 15 of last year announcing unity, but it was not thanks to our will or disposition. It was because there were Chileans who died, lost their sight and were injured by violence. Those wounds must be ours and we must respond to them with a single list. The deafness of our parties that makes the constitution of this table necessary as an answer is unacceptable. “
Beatriz Sánchez, former standard-bearer for the Broad Front, acknowledged that today “there is not a single opposition, there are several oppositions and a reconfiguration of Chilean politics that will be noticed in the elections that follow.” “But the constituent – he adds – escapes a normal election and known for its deadlines.” “In it we are thinking about the future of the next 40 years and that is why it needs a particular look that requires us to go over the conjunctural differences and think about transforming majorities, which is where we are all much closer, on the same page even “he explained.
The organization’s spokesperson, actor Alejandro Goic, refers to the tragic hero with a destiny assigned by the gods, prey to an inexorable end assigned from before. “Today that tragic hero is the people of Chile who voted for a new constitution. If we continue to be scattered, Pinochet and the 1980 Constitution win. In this case, those who determine that fate are the political class that lives in Olympus. It is up to them that this tragic hero does not have that fate, ”he says. And he adds that the current scenario defines a constituent electoral confrontation of 4 lists against those who wish to preserve the status quo and that it offers an “overwhelming over-representation.”
“There is a mandate of 80% of Chile that compels us ethically to keep a list trusted by 6 million Chileans who demanded a constituent convention,” Goic said.
For Luis Maira, founder of the Christian Left and former diplomat, it is regrettable to have to resolve through formal agreements and public signals for a concrete and robust opposition as a result of a context of political dispersion. “At the institutional level, very unfavorable things have happened since the triumph of the constitutional plebiscite,” he says about the growing disintegration of the Broad Front and the signs of internal division since recent votes in Congress. And he adds that “we must not lose sight of the fact that the result that 80% of Chileans expressed on October 25 depends on the sum of the wills of a conscious political class.”
“Today we are against time to achieve the registration of constituents on January 11. This enormous support must translate into a 2/3 majority to be able to predominate in the drafting of a Constitution that today is in danger in the face of a multitude of lists “, closed the lawyer.
The engineer and mathematician Pedro Felipe Ramírez, explained for his part that the mathematical models demonstrate the dark trend in which the 2/3 (that is, 104 constituents due to the change) in a single list can reach 109 members. “Those who voted for the rejection and wanted to keep the Pinochet Constitution, made their own calculations with 2 contrary lists. In that scenario, they take out 51% of the constituents. The only possibility of overthrowing the Constitution of the dictatorship is a single list. There is no other. The numbers rule over wills and good intentions, “he says.
Finally, the rector Álvaro Ramis, one of the organizers of the initiative, points out that it is the turn of the party leaders, who must offer an answer. “Those of the social world have already done our part by making this problem visible. Now we should hear a response by raising this red flag. It is to be hoped that it will be favorable, because indeed we live in a time of many visions, where the competition of political opinions is legitimate, but in the strictly constituent field that discussion does not fit but cooperation to achieve the greatest possible unity ”, he believes.
The meeting (to which the mayor of Recoleta Daniel Jadue, Felipe Berríos, Carmen Frei, Maya Fernández, Manuel Antonio Garretón, Tamara Muñoz, Carlos Margotta, Humberto Burotto, Moi de Tohá, Francisco Albornoz, Marcela Serrano, Claudio Trovatto, Raúl Vergara and actress Daniela Vega, among others) ended with the scheduling of a series of meetings between this table and the presidents of the opposition political parties.
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