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As has become customary during the coronavirus pandemic, the president of the Medical College of Chile, Izkia Siches, came out against government statements. This time, their darts were directed at President Sebastián Piñera and his plan to delay the plebiscite again for a new Constitution – which was originally scheduled for Sunday – due to the economic recession.
On Sunday, in an interview with Cnn in Spanish, the President maintained that “(the plebiscite) was postponed to October but I think that perhaps the recession is going to be so great, that this is an issue that perhaps will have to be discussed again,” said the head of state.
Given this, Siches recalled that although from the Colmed they asked that both the dates of the plebiscite and other elections be modifiable, “obviously these must maintain coherence vis-à-vis the citizens. It is difficult to explain how you can go to a mall, but not lets vote”.
“It is an issue that must be handled with great caution and we suggest starting work now for a safe plebiscite, which has all the necessary measures to materialize it next October,” Siches said, according to the slogan. Cooperative.
The controversy was addressed this Monday by the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, who noted that “we cannot anticipate what the situation will be,” but he fears low participation.
“If patients do not go to an emergency service today for fear of contagion by coronavirus, we wonder what the risk is that there will be people who deprive themselves of attending an act of citizen demonstration,” said the Minsal authority.
Heraldo Muñoz: “It seems extremely serious to me”
On the other hand, the president of the Party for Democracy (PPD), Heraldo Muñoz, refuted the argument of Piñera’s economic recession and described his approach as “extremely serious”.
“It seems extremely serious and delicate to me that the President of the Republic is now adding economic recession to health considerations. I do not think that the presidential elections in the United States will be suspended due to the economic recession,” he said.
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