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The deputy Camila Vallejo (PC), in conversation with CNN Chile, detailed the bill presented jointly to other opposition parliamentarians and that seeks that the Constitutional Convention (CC) can define the quorum with which the regulations of the new Constitution are approved or rejected.
This proposal caused a series of reactions in the ruling party and the opposition, and among the most repeated criticisms they point out that the Communist Party was not part of the agreed agreement on November 15, 2019 and which began the constitutional process.
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Regarding this, Vallejo stated that “those who issue these criticisms should look for the origin of so much virulenceWhy so much hate and unjustified criticism of an initiative that is completely legitimate and that has coherence from where it comes ”.
Likewise, he assured that even after the aforementioned agreement, “the seats reserved for native peoples in the Senate are being discussed, and we approve parity. On the same day of the plebiscite, people voted without knowing that there could be a Constitutional Convention with reserved seats, and in any case there is the majority will to change those rules of the game and add reserved seats. So I think that argument does not carry much weight“.
Project support
The communist deputy clarified that the initiative arises to give the possibility “that sovereignly the Convention defines its own quorum“And that” a space for broad citizen participation is also guaranteed, “ensuring that “It is the most democratic thing that the conventional ones can define their quorum and we do not impose it from the Congress.”
In the midst of the reactions to the project, Deputy Maya Fernández (PS), who was initially a participant in the document, finally withdrew her signature. Regarding this, Vallejo regretted that she is no longer part of the initiative, since “she was very willing to support this.”
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He also did not confirm that the socialist deputy had received pressure from her party, but clarified that “she told me what she publicly pointed out, that had an internal debate and did not want to generate more problemsVallejo explained, adding that “I don’t want to speak for her because it doesn’t correspond to me.”
The 2/3 quorum
Regarding the criticism that the project aroused, Vallejo established that “I don’t know where it came from that the 2/3 are the origin or the seed of great agreements, if the national experience has been of the imposition of a minority… generating a crisis, a political instability ”.
“It has happened with water, with pensions, that when the majority wants something but there is a veto of a minority, it has accumulated discomfort year after year in our country”, adding that in this scenario “our national experience has not indicated that the 2/3 have favored large agreements that give democratic legitimacy to political decisions … quite the opposite, the supra-majority quorums that were imposed with Jaime Guzmán have caused a deterioration in our institutional framework“, He concluded.
Even the parliamentarian argued that “not even we in the National Congress approve everything with the 2/3… Then why are we imposing such a high quorum on the Constitutional Convention that they cannot even modify it ”, he declared.
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Finally, the deputy responded to President Piñera’s intention to go to the Constitutional Court before the reforms approved in Congress, such as the second withdrawal of 10%.
As he declared, the president “has been dedicated to criticizing all the citizen initiatives that Congress has pushed and has managed to advance because they have been demands from the street … and because they have arisen under the wing of a president incapable of responding to those demands.”
“If you are going to take initiatives, I think you should also dare to go where the greatest riches of our country are”Vallejo said.
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