Four days after the resounding triumph of Rejection over Approval, the second half of the constituent process continues to take shape, which brought together the presidents and heads of factions of the parties with parliamentary representation with the presidents of both houses of Congress.
In the first meeting of the instance, the sectors showed their preferences regarding the elaboration of a new Constitution proposal, without reaching a consensus on the mechanism for it. Together, they established that next Monday they will resume talks to set an itinerary.
Given the possible mechanisms to be used, the president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, warned that there are two factors to consider.
“On the one hand, there are some maximalists who intend to exactly repeat the mechanism of the conventional one, with the same reserved seats, with the same formula, which is not only an error in itself, because the process failed over the weekend, and it is ignoring the result of a large majority of Chileans who said no to that formula and the result that came from it,” he said.
Along these lines, he pointed to another sector “that intends to leave everything the same, that says that we must maintain the status quo and do nothing. Both positions contribute to polarizing the environment.”
For Macaya, the difference with the last instance is that “this time you don’t have to negotiate with violence, with the imposition of force to get something quickly.”
That is why he stated that the process must be carried out “without pause, but without haste”, so that it does not come up against the next electoral process on the way: the municipal elections of 2024.
