The mayor of Providence, evelyn mattheiaddressed the constitutional proposal presented by the Constitutional Convention for the exit plebiscite to be held on September 4, when citizens must vote between the Approval or Rejection options.
Faced with the text presented, the mayor promised on behalf of the entire right to present a third proposal, not counting the current one and the one that will be voted on. Among her main arguments to criticize the current proposal is the politicization of justice.
You may also like:
However, he narrowed Mega which is also not in agreement with the current system, where Supreme Court ministers and prosecutors are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
“I do not like any system, I have always been against and what I have said publicly that the Senate participate in the nomination of court ministers and the nomination of the prosecutor. We saw what happened with the prosecutor and the parliamentarians who had ballots and nobody pursued,” Matthei said.
When delving into the judicial system proposed by the Convention, his main objection goes against “the very justice” that the indigenous peoples will have. “The truth is that the issue is not politicization, it is that it is a crazy system,” he said.
third proposal
Under these criticisms, the mayor surprised everyone by proposing a third constitutional text independent of the current one and the one drafted by the Convention.
“Today I am solemnly committing myself before the whole world that in case the Rejection wins we will go to a third party (text), because it will not be a reform of this one that they have delivered, which is lousy, nor of the one that exists” , he pointed.
Faced with this statement, the interlocutor of the program, Thomas Mosciatti he asked: “Who are you to compromise the entire right if the right lowered you as a candidate?”
“I discussed it with them. I told them I was going to say this and they told me ‘come on’. All the leaders, because they are already voting to lower the quorum to reform or change the current law and I am speaking appropriately on behalf of my sector” Matthei replied.
At the same time, he added that he has spoken with the UDI and Evópoli, but not with all the RN representatives, but with a few. “I believe that the Constitution that governs us is dead and the one they propose is so bad that it is born dead. The only thing left for us is to have a third option and it will be with a new Convention, experts, the current Congress,” he said.
Doubts in the Republican Party
The former Republican Party conventionalist, Ruth Hurtadoaccompanied Matthei on television, who, when asked about the store’s position on this third proposal, preferred to remain silent.
“I cannot speak on behalf of the party. There are internal discussions that are discussed collectively and today we are discussing the issue of a third way. We want to find the best way democratically, so that people decide how we can make these changes,” he said. .
