The general secretary of the Socialist Party, Camilo Escalona, showed his criticism of the letter prepared by former president Ricardo Lagos, in which he distanced himself from the Approval in the face of the exit plebiscite. Given this, he pointed out that the former president was wrong with his statements and must correct his position.
In this sense, the leader of the PS referred to the issue after holding a meeting with the representatives of the historical parties of the center-left, emphasizing the confidence that these groups will support the proposal for a new Constitution erected from the Constitutional Convention.
Regarding Lagos’s remarks, Escalona indicated that “my opinion is that the president made a mistake and I hope he will rectify it. He was wrong, because Approval and Rejection are not the same, Approval means giving Chile a new institutionality, in a democratic and social State of rights that faces the pending issues that led to a social explosion”.
“The Rejection is the past, the Pinochet Constitution. The Approval and the Rejection are not on the same level, they are two country options that are different. Consequently, we continue immovably, without any doubt and without hesitation, to be dry, with the Approval option, because from that base, from that pillar, we can improve the new institutional framework in the future,” he said.
Along the same lines, on whether the former president’s opinion harmed the Approval, Escalona declared that “President Lagos puts himself in a place that has no floor, that has no base. He, surely looking at a complex perspective that the country has, try to be above Approval and Rejection”.
“But, in the end, it does not have a floor, a pillar from which to project future political action. We are convinced that the continuous process of improving democracy in Chile depends on Approval, on establishing a democratic pillar from which to build changes. in democracy, pluralism and freedom,” he said.
