The president of the Expert Commission, Veronica Undurraga (PPD quota), together with other authorities, participated this Tuesday in the installation ceremony of the Executive Secretariat for Citizen Participation of the new constituent process -coordinated by the University of Chile and the Catholic University-. In this context, Undurraga pointed out that the population “will be able to influence” the draft that emanates from the Expert Commission.
“This new participation process has a difference that the commissioner made me notice Francisco Soto and I found it very interesting. This is going to be the first participatory process in this entire constituent feat in which people are going to be able to give their opinion on a specific text,” Undurraga said at the ceremony.
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“We are going to deliver the preliminary draft, the citizens are going to have the preliminary draft and the citizens are going to be able to influence their opinions on these specific proposals, and I think that this will also be extremely interesting and extremely informative,” added the Commission’s helmsman. Expert.
During the ceremony, Undurraga stated that “citizen participation in this process is an absolutely central pillar.” In turn, he expressed that one of the greatest risks of the new process is that “people do not feel summoned.”
The new constituent process includes four mechanisms for citizen participation:
- Popular standard initiative.
- Public hearings.
- Deliberative, representative or open citizen dialogues.
- Public consultation.
As reported by the universities during the ceremony, citizens will be able to comment on the draft of the Expert Commission and propose changes for the debate that will take place in the Constitutional Council.
- You can watch the entire ceremony in this video.
Tohá: “We process a bad result reasonably”
The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Toha, also participated in the ceremony. In the instance, she addressed the “wrong” result of the above process, noting that we “processed it reasonably.”
“I found it impossible (a new constituent process), but we raised it. Clearly we come from a series of more or less big setbacks, in many aspects, in what this demand still without an answer means, this need to relegitimize our political system, to update it, to give it validity as soon as it is an agreement between Chilean men and women, an agreement in substance,” Tohá said.
“Here we do not have the possibility of making mistakes once again,” emphasized the Secretary of State.
Regarding the previous process, Tohá pointed out that “we did not listen to each other. Each one listened to whoever they thought was important to listen to, they tried to carry their voice and what resulted, the way in which it reflected us as a whole, did not made sense to the citizenry”.
“It’s a bad result that we process reasonably,” he said.
