The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, referred this Friday to the increase confirmed by surveys such as Cadem and Criteria for the option of rejecting the proposed Constitution of the Constitutional Convention in the exit plebiscite.
In early April, Feedback, Pulse Citizen and Cadem in their studies showed an increase in mistrust and disapproval of the work of the drafting body. In the Plaza Pública de Cadem measurement, for example, the Rejection option then reached 46% of the intention to vote, versus 40% of those who stated that they would approve the new Magna Carta. The data installed the alert in the Convention and worried the ruling party.
Asked regarding this on Radio Pauta, Minister Jackson recalled that in the constitutional debate, only those issues that achieve two-thirds of support in the Chamber are the ones that will be incorporated into the draft.
“Our evaluation so far – we are always monitoring it from the Segpres Studies Division to see how the subsequent implementation is going to be – is that the things approved in the draft so far are very good news, they are good things that citizens has been demanding, he explained.
Along these lines, the government authority recognized that “it is true that there are some knots that are not resolved and there is an issue of harmonization and transitory articles,” but said he was confident, like President Gabriel Boric, that the formula of two-thirds guarantee that the standards approved are “positive issues for the country.”
The head of the Segpres stated that in the event that the Rejection is imposed in the September plebiscite “constitutionally and in formal terms, it would be opting to maintain the current Constitution.”
“That would bring us the question of whether or not we have resolved the constitutional problem, because there is no such thing as a second option or escape route”said.
Jackson expressed his confidence that once the final harmonized text is ready, it will lower the level of “disinformation that has generated fear due to aspects that are not in the draft and that have been spread as if they were true.”
The minister maintained that the Executive manages data from focus groups and surveys that associate the rise in Rejection with “uncertainty” and confusion regarding the final proposal.
“Today the emphasis should be on citizens being as informed as possible regarding what is the real text that is going to emanate from the Constitutional Convention as a draft of the new Constitution in the face of the fears that people express when they say they want to reject the topics that are not in the draft and that, due to misinformation, are used as a reason to reject”, he pointed out.
The minister added that “there are focus groups and surveys” along these lines, which confirm, for example, that there is fear of the idea of expropriating pension funds, something that motivated the Executive to introduce a reform in Congress to explain its stance on it.
Giorgio Jackson commented that in the Convention he understood that a norm on something that is associated with the right to property was not necessary, “But they have already realized that it is being the main tool of those who want to reject the Constitution.”
“I imagine they are going to do something regarding it”assured.
“They are advising that it seems sensible or reasonable given this misinformation to be able to include a rule that ensures that property,” he said, ruling out that the government has requested that an indication regarding it be included in the draft of the Magna Carta.
