President of the PS, Paulina Vodanovic: letter from Ricardo Lagos "does not contribute to the debate"

The letter that former President Ricardo Lagos made official a few days ago, questioning the Constitution delivered by the already dissolved Convention, continues to generate reactions and questions.

Let us remember that the former president assured that neither the current Constitution nor the proposal of the Convention have broad consensus, for which he called for an independent reform of the result of the plebiscite.

A couple of days ago the general secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Camilo Escalona, publicly declared that Lagos was wrong. The same was done by former PS militant Jorge Arrate, who expressed his disagreement with the former head of state through a letter published by The counterwhere he argued the reasons he has to disagree with his position in the face of the Exit Plebiscite on September 4.

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Today the president of the party, Paulina Vodanovic, joined the party, who said she had “a lot of respect” for the former President of the Republic, however, accused that his letter “does not contribute to the debate, it is not clear as to what his option is” .

in conversation with Cooperative RadioVodanovic expressed that “I have a lot of respect for former President Lagos, but I think that his letter does not really contribute to the debate, it is not clear as to what his option is, nor has it been clear in the interviews he has given.”

In the opinion of the socialist helmsman, after Lagos’s declarations, the “feeling” remains that this proposal for a new Constitution and the current Magna Carta “would be the same.”

“The Constitution of 1980 is not only anti-democratic, it was not only voted in a mock vote, there were no electoral records, there was political persecution, so for me a Constitution born in those conditions is not the same as a Constitution born in democracy, with all the criticism that one can make of it, but we cannot equate it with an anti-democratic Constitution, which has also enshrined inequality as a model of life,” Vodanovic stressed.

And he explained: “I think the main error is there, in that we are discussing between two Constitutions whose origin and content are diametrically opposed.”

The president of the PS also referred to the position taken by former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, who revealed that he will vote Rejection in the plebiscite on September 4. “This is not an academic discussion, politicians are there to give definitions, to guide and seek well-being or the best for the country, and it seems to me that in both cases there is no clear orientation, because the letters are equivocal.”

Finally, Vodanovic criticized that “we are giving much more importance to the people behind these opinions than to the Constitution itself.”