The new constituent process continues to be configured. This, because the Chamber of the Senate approved with a wide margin the list with the 12 names proposed by the political parties to be part of the Expert Commission, which will be in charge of drafting, together with the new body, the proposal for a new Constitution .
Specifically, the list was endorsed by 41 votes in favor, three against and one abstention, and what is striking is that a “political” logic prevailed, where each of the parties “installed” an expert in in relation to their ties, more than because of their technical or legal knowledge, among which ex-authorities of the governments of Sebastián Piñera and Michelle Bachelet stand out.
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Beginning with the letter from the ruling party, in the Broad Front, I Approve Dignity chose the journalist and former press officer of the Committee of Senators of the Social Green Regionalist Federation (FRVS), Magaly Fuenzalida. Name that caused surprise.
For its part, the Socialist Party (PS) favored the lawyer and academic Gabriel Osorio and the lawyer and former conventional candidate for District 10, Catalina Lagos. Both were ultimately incorporated to comply with the principle of gender parity.
Meanwhile, from the PPD they appointed the lawyer, Doctor of Law and former member of the Secretariat of Popular Participation of the Constitutional Convention, Francisco Soto. Likewise, they chose the academic and constitutional lawyer, Leslie Sánchez.
The Christian Democracy (DC), in the same way, defined that its letter to integrate the Expert Commission of the constituent process will be the former Minister of Labor and Social Welfare during the second administration of former President Michelle Bachelet, Alejandra Krauss.
In Chile Vamos, the UDI opted for the former Minister of Justice during the second administration of Sebastián Piñera, Hernán Larraín, and for Bettina Horst, an economist with a long career as a public official and who served as head of the Monetary Area of the Department of Studies of the Central bank. She is the current executive director of Libertad y Desarrollo.
Those chosen by Renovación Nacional (RN) were the former Minister of Foreign Affairs during the second government of Sebastián Piñera, Teodoro Rivera, and the lawyer Katherine Martorell, who served -in the same government- as Undersecretary for Crime Prevention. They are joined by Jaime Arancibia, PhD in Law and academic from the Universidad de los Andes.
Finally, from Evópoli they opted for Sebastián Soto, who is a lawyer and Doctor of Law from the University of Chile. He currently works as director of the Department of Public Law at UC, where he teaches Constitutional Law. Likewise, he is a counselor of the State Defense Council (CDE).
It should be noted that starting next Monday, March 6, the Expert Commission of the new constituent process will begin to meet, with the 24 names having been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
