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In a split vote, the Senate Constitution Committee approved 24 seats reserved for indigenous peoples, in addition to the 155 originally determined for the Constitutional Convention, which will write the next Fundamental Charter.
From the right an indication had been raised to establish 15 reserved seats, but discounted from the 155 of the Convention, which did not receive enough votes to be incorporated into the future law at this stage.
The approved formula, promoted by opposition parliamentarians, indicates that of those 24, 14 would be exclusively destined to the Mapuche people, with gender parity criteria; and nine to the rest of the original peoples, among them: two to the Aymara people (one man and one woman), one for the Rapa Nui ethnic group, one for the Kawéskar people and the rest for the Yagán, Quechua, Atacameña, Diaguita and Kolla ethnic groups.
Later the senator’s proposal was approved Jose Miguel Insulza (PS), which consisted of allocating a new seat for a Chilean of African descent.
In the case of the last eight seats mentioned, gender parity would be applied among the total of them.
During the session, the Commission approved an indication promoted by the socialist Isabel Allende and other opposition parliamentarians of the Valparaíso Region, referring to forming a kind of special statute for the election of the representative of the rapa nui people that, unlike the other indigenous communities, would have a special standardIn other words, only voters credited as belonging to that town could vote.
This is not final.
The room must still be pronounced, where a special quorum is required that neither the ruling party nor the opposition have.
Then he must return to the lower house.
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) October 30, 2020
However, the decision is not yet final, as the constitutional reform must be seen later by the Chamber of the Upper House and with a special quorum, which neither the opposition bloc nor the ruling party have by themselves to defend and promote their respective proposals.
During his speech, the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Christian Monckeberg, argued that although the intention of the Executive is that there be reserved seats, urged the need for an agreement to be reached in the matter so that the reform does not fall in the Chamber, considering that the discussion so far gives the impression that “we are not approaching that”.
Senator DC Francisco Huenchumilla stressed that “The Mapuche people represent almost 80 percent of the indigenous population in Chile, but they also attend this scene with all their struggle, and we would probably not be talking about this today if it had not been for all the mobilization and struggle that the Mapuche people have given throughout this century. “
“All the conversations that we may have had and that we may have are going to embark on that we can have an honorable agreement for everyone. As long as that does not occur, there will be no agreement,” added the parliamentarian for La Araucanía.
In that sense, a controversy was generated when Senator UDI Ebensperger Light affirmed that to approve the reform, it does not require 3/5 of the votes, but 2/3 -that is, 29 supports and not 26, as was thought-, but the technical secretariat of the Commission specified that the necessary quorum is 3/5, ratifying what is supported by the opposition and the Government warned that it could take the matter to the Constitutional Court (TC).
Ebensperger also accused a overrepresentation that the Mapuche people would have In the event that the project was approved in the Chamber: “The representation is not adequate and they are supernumerary,” he said.
The debate in the session continued regarding other aspects of the reform, such as the incorporation of an article on the inclusion of candidates with disabilities, which was approved by three votes to two.
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