The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres), George Jackson, addressed the results of recent surveys in relation to the plebiscite to exit the draft of the new Constitution, which will be held on September 4. Reports have shown an increase in the intention to vote for the Rejection.
“We are going to have to work from September 5 on how we make the largest part of our government program viable,” Jackson said in conversation with “Tolerancia Cero”, from CNNChile.
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In the Plaza Pública Cadem survey, 51% of those surveyed said they were for Rejection and 33% for Approval. Meanwhile, in Pulso Ciudadano, 44% of those consulted agreed to reject and 25% to approve.
The Secretary of State affirmed that from the Government there are opinion studies that show similar figures. “Not the same, but there are trends that are similar,” said the former deputy.
The head of the Segpres also indicated that “there is a very bad evaluation of what the process has been, of the conventional ones and of the episodes that have occurred, which have had a lot of media coverage.”
“(This) has had a lot of media coverage because it is a transparent process, this was not written between four walls, this has had a disclosure of the things that can be successful, but also of all the missteps that have occurred during the process”, complement.
“We’re talking about a process that, mistakes and all, meets the democratic standard,” Jackson said.
“You may not like the text and that is what is legitimate. People can read and can say ‘I did not like the final result, I like the current Constitution better’. There are people who say ‘I like the current one and I want to see if it can be reform,” he said.
Cabinet Irina Karamanos
Minister Jackson was also consulted about the controversy caused by the “Cabinet Irina Karamanos“, a name that, through an exempt resolution at the end of March, replaced the name of First Lady.
“Nobody from the political committee had access to that information until it was released, thematized and resolved, the next day, in one day,” Jackson said.
“This is a resolution that changed the name for purposes of communication between the ministries, but it was not a political definition, as the government spokeswoman said,” he added.
Let us remember that after the controversy on social networks transcended, the Executive left the resolution without effect last week and changed the name of First Lady to Sociocultural Coordination of the Presidency of the Republic.
