the senator Yasna Provost (DC) discussed on Tuesday the agreement reached yesterday by the political parties – called the “Agreement for Chile” – to continue with the constituent process. In this regard, he hopes that the new process “has a better degree of understanding by the public.”
“That this process has a better degree of accompaniment and understanding on the part of the citizenry, because it is necessary to transform our Fundamental Charter,” said the head of the DC senators’ bench.
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Likewise, Provoste indicated that he has no doubt “that our country requires a new social contract, but this must also be understood by citizens, because a new model of society was offered (with the proposal presented by the Constitutional Convention) and this was widely rejected.”
“When I meet people in health centers and they say, look at this, what they charge for health is a shame, one says, I risked it for having a new constitution and a new health model. And we were defeated,” he added. .
water matter
“This agreement comes at a time when in the Atacama region the General Directorate of Water has declared irreparable damage to the river due to the activity of Minera Alcaparrosa in the Tierra Amarilla commune, which caused this sinkhole that it was national and international news,” Provoste said.
“The question that one asks. It is possible that in the new Fundamental Charter we have new safeguards and that we say that water must have a priority use for human consumption. If this had been approved in September of this year, we would not have had any doubts,” he added.
“It is not enough with 100 million pesos to be charged to a company, for something that generates irreparable damage from the river where the inhabitants of Paipote, Copiapó and Caldera, small farmers and Rural Drinking Water Systems met and left to be affected”, added the legislator”, concluded the legislator.
