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After the presidents of the Chile Vamos parties held the first meeting with the newly assumed Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado -which was attended by Rafael Prohens from RN, Luz Poblete from Evópoli and Rodrigo Caramori from PRI- the President of the UDI, Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, referred to the possibility of granting reserved seats to members of evangelical churches in the Constitutional Convention.
This after participating in the program Canal 13 Center Table where it was consulted for the quotas destined to native peoples. “I want reserved seats for evangelical churches. If this is pulling and hugging. If we are going to start changing the agreement of November 15, why aren’t there, for evangelical churches, reserved seats?”the senator said yesterday.
His sayings pointed to the indication promoted by the opposition and approved in the Senate Constitution Committee that adds 23 seats to be occupied by indigenous representatives. With this, the members of the Convention would increase from 155 to 178. However, the vote was reached without the agreement of the ruling party, a sector that proposes reserving 15 seats for this group, but without increasing the total number of members of the constituent body.
Consulted today on this issue, the senator explained: “When we begin a replacement of this representative democracy, by interest groups such as the indigenous (…) it seems to us that an interest group that must be considered – especially if we are a Western Christian society – are those who defend the values Christians who are more than 30% of the population “.
“If the way is to go to a representation of authorities through interest groups, then let all the interest groups be represented”added the UDI leader.
Meanwhile, the President of National Renovation, Rafael Prohens (RN) argued that increasing the number of reserved seats means that “The agreement of November 15 was not respected”.
“In that figure of the 155 we can reach the agreements we want, but on that, at least Chile Vamos will not be available, because they are permanently changing the rules of the game as they have done from that day forward”he explained.
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The UDI leader also referred to the second withdrawal of 10% of AFP funds that will be voted tomorrow in the Chamber of Deputies.
In that sense, he ruled out that the deputies who eventually vote in favor of the initiative are applied a disciplinary measure as happened when the previous project was legislated. “What happens is that this situation is different. Last time it was not for the 10% but for the mechanism that was used. Although the mechanism remains the same, it was validated by the majority. From that perspective we have to wait for what happens on Tuesday “he commented.
Meanwhile, from RN, Prohens reiterated that a “Match order” to the parliamentarians. “We do not use that system (party order), we have never used them and we are not going to do it either. They (the deputies) know the point of view of the government, of some senators, but there is no order from the party for such a decision ”.
