The Minister Secretary General of the Presidency (Segpres), Giorgio Jackson, met the criticism of the opposition towards the government of President Gabriel Boric, for his position regarding the exit plebiscite of the proposed new Constitution that will take place next September 4.
It all started on May 28 when the President launched the “Let’s make history” campaign with information about the crucial election, an instance in which the Head of State slipped his option for September 4. “By the way, the decision that is made is important, here everyone has their preferences, you know where we come from, we have fought for a new Constitution for so long,” said Gabriel Boric, in La Moneda. Given this, from Renovación Nacional (RN) and the Republican Party announced that they would go to the Comptroller for “electoral intervention.”
Said and done. In addition, this week former presidential candidate José Antonio Kast and deputies from the Republican Party filed a complaint against ministers Camila Vallejo (Segegob) and Giorgio Jackson (Segpres) before the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR). This, precisely due to eventual electoral interventionism in the face of the plebiscite.
The criticism was redoubled when on July 20, President Boric, through his Twitter account, shared a publication by deputy Diego Ibañez (CS), corresponding to a meme by the singer Chayanne in which he called for the vote to Approve. “How To Convince Your Family To Vote I Approve?” read the headline. And the situation did not improve when the President signed copies of the draft.
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In the face of all the accusations, in conversation with ChilevisionMinister Jackson was blunt in stating that “it seems to me that they have no basis because the disregard of an opinion in the Comptroller’s Office refers to not occupying resources and not working time to demonstrate for a specific option and the government has complied with that fully”.
The head of the Segpres ruled out that there is “interventionism” on the part of the Government and stated that “when the President in the role of delivering the text of the new Constitution is so that people can say Approval or Rejection and when they ask the President for a signature he will never refuse, not to do so would be very contrary to the personality of the President”.
Regarding the controversy with the singer Chayanne, Giorgio Jackson assured that “it was assumed as an error by someone from the Community Manager team who uploaded a photo and immediately downloaded it, it was 10 minutes.”
Finally, the Secretary of State referred to the complaint filed by the Republican Party against him and the Segegob minister, Camila Vallejo, in the framework of the disregard that must be respected in the face of the plebiscite and the request to create a “special unit” to investigate a possible electoral intervention by the government of President Boric.
Jackson pointed out that if the former presidential candidate, José Antonio Kast “is afraid that we will deliver the new Constitution, one would think that the people who are with the Rejection would like us to deliver it, both the Approval and Rejection people should be handing out the text of the new Constitution.
“It strikes me that they claimed from the opposition that before the plebiscite we were not governing and now they tell us that they interpret it as a campaign for Approval, when we have never expressed a position,” said Minister Segpres.
