The President of the Democratic Revolution, Juan Ignacio Latorre, pointed out that the project that seeks to reduce the quorum to 4/7 for constitutional reforms is “functional” for the rejection campaign.
Given this, he made a call to review whether or not the initiative will be necessary “as of September 5”, one day after the exit plebiscite, where the citizens will choose whether or not to approve the proposal for a new Constitution.
In that sense, Senator Latorre stated that he will request a second discussion of the measure, an attribution contemplated in the Senate regulations for projects that do not have legislative urgency.
in conversation with emmolthe parliamentarian maintained that “we are suspicious of the intention and the moment in which this bill is presented, less than two months before the plebiscite. We are not a priori against this initiative, of lowering the supramajoritarian quorum, we are in favor of do it, the point is how it is done and when it is done”.
“This is where we see that there is an operation by sectors of the DC, Ximena Rincón and Matías Walker, particularly, who are for the Rejection, which is a different position than the one taken by their DC party, which they have every right to do. “, he added.
Along the same lines, he questioned that these “are articulated with the right, from the Republican Party, to Evópoli and they want to propose with great insistence that a vote be taken now, and this project is a parliamentary motion, it was recently taken out of the Constitution commission, there is no urgency, the Executive is the one that sets the urgencies, so there is no reason to vote now when there is a plebiscite in progress.
“My point is that we let the people express themselves on September 4 and with the result in hand, let’s see if this project is necessary or not as of September 5,” he said.
“I say two things, one is the famous plan B or plan C or third ways, this project specifies that strategy and it is functional to Rejection, it is to tell people: ‘You calmly vote for rejection, because there is an alternative here that we have already approved in Congress that lowers the quorum to 4/7, therefore, we are going to agree in Congress to make the constitutional reforms that we are going to make viable,” he added.
“We are very open to conversation, if this constituent process fails, because there is a previous and original mandate that is a new Constitution and not a reform. Therefore, the conversation on September 5 would be how we come to an agreement to continue a constitutional process that leads to a new Constitution,” he said.
