Less than three months remain for the exit plebiscite to take place, an instance set for September 4 where citizens will vote whether or not to approve the proposal for a new Constitution that the Constitutional Convention is preparing in its final stage.
During the recent past Monday, both Approve Dignity and Democratic Socialism, announced from the Palacio de La Moneda, a permanent coordination policy table for the Approve campaign. This, after criticism from the ruling party that pointed to the delay of the former Concertación to show its position.
In a conversation with Channel 13, the president of the PPD, Natalia Piergentili, addressed what would happen in the country in the event that the next Fundamental Charter is not approved, stating that “in my opinion there is not one single way of looking at the Rejection. It is different think about the causes of a possible Rejection when 80% of the population wanted a new Constitution”.
“The idea is to be able to visualize in detail what were those aspects so that a citizenry so eager for change leans towards Rejection. I think that, if it happens, it deserves a deep conversation of the Government, the parties, the parliament , from civil society, but I think it would be a very complex scenario,” he said.
“It is an option, the President himself has said that it is an option as valid as the Approval. It is different that we are focused on what he convenes, which I hope will be approved. In the internal discussions of Democratic Socialism, of the PPD in particular, we have talked about that it is a complex option, in which perhaps the country would not be prepared for another constituent process,” he added.
Along the same lines, Piergentili referred to the current scenario of the opposition, where the right aligned itself with the Rejection and “deemed dead” the current Constitution.
“That is why it seems so important to me the times in which the right has stated that it rejects, which is its legitimate position, but they consider the 1980 Constitution dead,” he addressed.
“What is your proposal to the country regarding that? What are they available to change? It seems to me that it is part of a debate that if they raise the rejection it would be interesting to put it on the table all the times that they themselves have killed the Constitution of 1980 and that, I insist, 80% of the population in Chile wanted to vote for a constitutional change,” he concluded.
