After participating on Thursday in the Senate’s Future Challenges commission, the former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle He expressed his willingness to collaborate in the new constituent process. In that sense, he leaned towards a consultative role.
“I have always been willing to collaborate on whatever issues in Chile,” said the former president, but noted that “I am not going to get into the small fight, nor am I going to get involved or offer myself.”
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“All the former presidents have expressed their willingness to collaborate, so Congress or those who have the responsibility… I think it would be enough to have a contact, I don’t know, from time to time, review the articles, documents, proposals and share the vision with the experts and with the constituents or conventional, I do not know what they are going to call the new ones, but I have seen all the former presidents available, ”he added.
In turn, Frei expressed: “no one is going to deny something that is in the common interest and to leave what was the first proposal that was disastrous and that the country rejected in its majority.”
The former president Ricardo Lagos, Michelle Bachelet Y sebastian pinera They have also shown their willingness to collaborate in the new constituent process. All, for the moment, have leaned towards a more consultative role.
Let us remember that the Senate approved on Wednesday the reform project that enables the new constituent process. Now, the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies processes the initiative.