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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andres Allamand, said the new Constitution “must bet on a certain historical continuity” of Chile and “not deny its biography.”
In a conversation with the Spanish newspaper The country, the chancellor stated that “It would be a very serious mistake for Chile to re-found itself in the new Constitution”, assuring that “it would be suicidal for the country to deny those elements that, objectively, have generated its progress and have also been able to shape a positive international image.”
Despite this, he recognized that “There is certainly room for adjustment, for correction, to advance in matters that may have certainly lagged behind”, but remarked that “I will never share the wrong vision that some try to install and that indicates that Chile’s trajectory since the recovery of democracy in 1990 was negative.”
“The legacy of 30 years of democracy in which the center-left and center-right have alternately ruled was objectively successful politically, economically and socially,” he emphasized.
Between the “key elements should be preserved” that he hopes will be included in the new Magna Carta after a constituent process that will be absolutely citizen, Allamand mentions “maintaining, without a doubt, some key pillars of Chilean economic development such as respect for the private property, individual initiative, non-discriminatory treatment between national investment and foreign investment, that there is a general system of equal rules for all “.
“It would also be wrong to close the doors to private actors being able to participate – subject to adequate regulation – in the provision of public services or goods,” he added.
