This morning the senator and president of National Renovation, Francisco Chahuán, in conversation with Radio Universo, referred to the drafting of the new Constitution, and also detailed how the behavior of his sector will be following the change of command in March when Gabriel Boric assumes The presidency.
About the dinner that President Piñera held last night with his political committee and with the leaders of Chile Vamos, Chahuán indicated that it was “an evaluation meeting of what the last 14 months with 7 elections have been.”
“It was an intimate dinner in which we saw him excited, grateful, and he leaves with a feeling of task accomplished, since he had a particularly complex period, “he said, adding that” few times in the history of Chile there have been three crises: a political crisis, a health crisis, and an economic crisis. ” .
“The President is feeling a job well done in these four years,” he explained.
Regarding the disapproval that citizens present to the President in the polls, Chahuán indicated that “of course there is a deficit of support, but certainly, and I have no doubt, that as time passes, the work of this government will be looked at with different eyes ”.
On whether from the party they plan to meet with the President-elect, Gabriel Boric, the president of RN indicated that they already spoke with Izkia Siches for that, and they were pointed out which is possible the third week of January.
“We are going to be an opposition from March 11, firm, but fair. An opposition that is going to seek agreements, politics must be revalidated as an instrument at the service of the people, and that implies that We are going to open all the spaces for dialogue to reach agreements thinking that Chile needs us to be able to resolve the important issues”He added.
Regarding the work of the Constitutional Convention and the drafting of the new constitution, he indicated that “As an opposition, and particularly as RN, we are going to wait for the text to take a position on the exit plebiscite.”
“We do not believe that it is necessary to advance a position in favor or once morest, it is necessary to let the conventional process have the opportunity,” he added.
For this, he detailed, They are advancing a decalogue of principles – freedoms and rights – that should be contemplated in the fundamental charter, in order to support the process.