As part of his trip to Mexico, President gabriel boric He warned that the “most conservative sectors continue to be very strong” and called for the “offensive” of the Latin American left.
“One looks at the elections we had in Chile, the ones that took place in Brazil or the situation in Peru and sees that, despite the fact that we have rulers where we had a presidential majority, the right or the most conservative sectors continue to be very strong,” said the president. President in conversation with the media the day.
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“Therefore, we cannot put aside the exercise of convincing our people that the alternative that we are proposing is better and that we are going to propose it together,” added the head of state.
“Given the offensive of certain sectors that do not believe in science, that deny climate change, that use violence in demonstrations, that do not believe in democracy, the left has been somewhat cornered,” the President continued.
In this line, he stated that “we have to go on the offensive, thinking that the left is not built only from the State. It is important to re-link civil society, to neighborhood organizations, so that the left does not remain only in the administration of public policies is politics”.
“In addition, we have to be deeply internationalists. The pandemic made it very clear that no one here is going to save themselves, and that in this sense integration, particularly Latin American integration, is tremendously important to me, ”he said.
President Boric was consulted about the victories of Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Lula da Silva (Brazil) and what he expects for the region.
“I hope that, in Latin America, after a time that we have been involved in fights, we can reach a good port with our international issues. For example, it was very sad to see that in times of the pandemic we began to compete for vaccines instead of to collaborate between governments, so that we all would have had the best possible access,” he said.
new constitution
The President also addressed the continuation of the constituent process, after the population rejects the proposal for a new Magna Carta in the plebiscite on September 4.
“There is a cross-sectional consensus that the current Constitution is exhausted and must be changed,” he said.
“I like the idea of a Constitution that is capable of containing the questions that we have not yet asked ourselves,” he added.
“It cannot be rigid, that imposes a way of thinking over others; it must allow the democratic debate to institutionally channel the demands of society: promote a development model that is green, strengthen democracy in all instances, in where parity, gender equality is a central pillar, where there is no doubt of unrestricted respect for human rights,” he emphasized.
He also hopes a new Constitution “allows the State to also play a role, not be a merely subsidiary State. It also decentralizes power. We have to distribute wealth in a better way, but also power.”
