Conventionalists and parliamentarians criticized the statements of the president of the Servel, Andrés Tagle, who addressed the Constitutional Convention (CC) and stated that the body that drafts the country’s new Magna Carta was “elected with serious inequalities in the vote that cast doubt on its origin democratic”.
Tagle, a member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and former director of the National Copper Corporation (Codelco) during the first government of Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014), questioned the Convention, although he later clarified that it was an “opinion personal”. In any case, he generated summons from different fronts and his resignation was even requested.
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The conventional of the Communist Party (PC), Carolina Videla, pointed out to Radio Biobio that these statements were irresponsible and that Tagle gives himself the luxury of questioning the legitimacy of the conventional electoral process. Likewise, the constituent of Vamos por Chile, Roberto Vega, also joined the criticism of the Servel helmsman and indicated that it is unfair to judge each election, without looking at its genesis.
Criticism of Tagle also came from Congress. The deputy Daniel Núñez (PC) described as “very serious” the statements of the head of the Servel and criticized that the former adviser of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency “accuses vices in the election (of the) Convention and says that reserved seats (and) original peoples ‘they are subterfuges typical of a dictatorship’. It is unacceptable that he promotes a smear campaign against the convention: he must resign immediately.”
“President Servel, the UDI Andrés Tagle has become an activist rejecting the new Constitution. It does not guarantee impartiality, nor less transparency in the Exit Plebiscite. He must resign,” said deputy Núñez, on Twitter.
The Human Rights lawyer and deputy, Carmen Hertz (PC) also addressed the statements of the commercial engineer and head of Servel and did her thing on the social network of the blue bird, lambasting the “unacceptable statements of Andrés Tagle”, affirming that “they did not understands or respects the position he holds and acts as a militant of the UDI openly and with total impudence”.
The current head of Servel, Andrés Tagle, responded to the criticism he received after publishing a column in The Mercury where he questioned the proportional system and the election of the conventional ones. Through a public statement, he stated that “I must clarify that it is a personal opinion, that it does not compromise the other members of the Board of Directors of the Electoral Service” and that “I have never had the intention of questioning the legitimacy of the Constitutional Convention. I only wanted to point out that the existence of elements of inequality in the vote with which she was elected, reproduce the disparate representation of other elections. For the rest, the conventionalists are not responsible for the way they were elected and the Electoral Service, whose Council I preside over, was responsible for organizing said election with total transparency and in accordance with the terms established by the Constitution.”
