The various helmsmen and party bench chiefs met for the second time to advance talks on formulas for drafting a new constitution.
In this sense, the president of the Senate, Álvaro Elizalde, delivered the first guidelines reached. The first of these is that the new Constitution “be drawn up by a body elected entirely by the citizens, 100% democratically elected, in such a way as to preserve a basic principle of this process, that the citizens be the protagonists of the constituent process May your voice be heard and respected.
“The obligation was agreed for the exit vote, parity and a role for a commission of experts,” he added. Meanwhile, he indicated that there are still pending issues, such as the electoral system, the participation of indigenous and independent peoples.
For his part, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Raúl Soto, detailed the five “major agreements” issued after the meeting, anticipating that the first of them is “the continuity of the process of building a new Constitution.”
“This process of building a new Constitution is going to be drafted, and this is very important, by an elected body 100% for that purpose, and this comes, therefore, to validate and legitimize the popular mandate of the people of Chile that was delivered in the entry plebiscite,” he added.
Along these lines, he maintained that “thirdly, we have agreed broadly and transversally that this process and this body must have parity. Parity, between men and women, gender parity is something that has come to stay and on what which no political sector is willing to back down”.
As for the drafting of the proposal, it will be “in charge of people elected by the citizens, it will be accompanied and supported in this task by a committee of experts, whose rules of operation and design will be discussed later at this negotiating table. that we are going to form and constitute on Thursday, with a representative from each political party with parliamentary representation”.
After participating in the meeting, the Segpres minister, Ana Lya Uriarte, indicated that “our Government is very hopeful in the course of this dialogue, among these actors who seek to arrive at a new Constitution for Chile, putting an end to the uncertainty that is present for many Chilean men and women”.
The Secretary of State valued the agreements reached and sentenced saying that they are “happy with the result of the dialogue, because we already know that there is an agreement regarding the 100% democratic re-election of people who can draft a new Constitution for Chile, thus forming a new body in charge of this task, that is completely aligned with what as a Government we have wanted and have manifested for a long time”.
