The heads of the bench of deputies of the UDI, RN and Evópoli, Jorge Alessandri, Andrés Longton and Francisco Undurraga, officiated at the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic to issue a statement and update its administrative jurisprudence regarding the political participation of the Government of President Gabriel Boric in disseminating messages related to the Constitutional Convention so as not to interfere in the Exit Plebiscite.
This request, they say, was born as a result of the declarations of the ministers of the General Secretariat of the Government and General Secretariat of the Presidency, Camila Vallejos and Giorgio Jackson. Likewise, from President Gabriel Boric himself, who on more than one occasion has declared that “I am totally committed to the promulgation of a new Constitution.”
The head of the UDI caucus, Jorge Alessandri, assured that “we have come to ask the Comptroller’s Office to lay the foundations for what should be the action of the Executive Power in a pre-election stage. The Comptroller’s Office has always set limits on what that person can do which is a guarantee of an election and we need the plebiscite to be free and informed”.
Likewise, he added that it must be defined “what is the schedule of the ministers, of the presidency that is going to be demanded of them and from 1990 to date, the Comptroller’s Office has always been very demanding with the disregard of the Executive. We do not believe that this time should be different.”
His RN counterpart, Andrés Longton, affirmed that “we need to have a government that cares about the deepest needs of the people, about the increase in the basic basket, about the security issues that have been so neglected, about the pensions of the Chileans, but the last thing we want is for him to put private interests ahead of the general interest. In this case we want to eradicate the ideological and partisan views that it may have regarding the plebiscite. We do not want public resources to be committed, which are to beat up the social needs of people, for the purpose of having a single view regarding a plebiscite that belongs to all Chileans.”
The head of the Evópoli bench, deputy Francisco Undurraga, pointed out that “here it is not about occupying public resources, it is not about occupying the state apparatus in order to promote a position A or an opposition B, the important thing here is that all citizens go and attend this electoral process on September 4 in an informed manner”.
“We are asking the Comptroller to effectively mark and limit the field, so that we can all calmly take the position we want in relation to September 4 to the proposal that the Constituent Assembly is going to make us, but that this is not with intervention on the part of of the executive”, pointed out the deputy Undurraga.
