The constituent process is still tangled and despite the efforts of parliamentarians represented in Congress, it has not been possible to untie the main knot: the composition of the body that will be in charge of drafting the New Constitution.
In the ruling party they are in favor of this body being elected 100% by the citizens. On the other hand, in the opposition, they want the composition to be divided into 50% elected and another 50% designated, like a committee of experts.
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But in the event that this process finally fails and that a New Constitution is not drawn up, the ruling party has already begun to concede positions to get closer to that of the right. Yesterday it was the former president of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, Raúl Soto (PPD) and today he is the same President Gabriel Boricwho said he was in favor of a mixed body, despite the fact that it is not what he had in mind at the beginning.
“It is not what we as a government alliance would like. (…) We have defended the importance of a 100% elected body,” Boric said after the enactment of the 2023 Budget Law.
“However, an imperfect agreement is preferable to not having an agreement,” he emphasized, adding that “we cannot continue to delay the constitutional discussion any longer,” which would be seen as a new failure of the Boric administration, which has bet all their chips to a new Magna Carta drawn up during his presidential term.
In this context, the President pointed to the priority of separating the differences for the “common good of the country.”
Finally, he requested that “political parties rise to the occasion and we are capable of delivering a clear, concrete mechanism, with more democracy for the realization of a new social pact for our country.”
