Minister Giorgio Jackson assured that the Government will try to get as close as possible to the program they proposed, in case it wins the Rejection in the Exit Plebiscite. “We have a four-year mandate and if the Rejection wins, we will do everything possible to advance what we have promised,” he said.
The Government anticipated a possible scenario in the face of an eventual triumph of the Rejection in the Exit Plebiscite on September 4, where the draft of the New Constitution.
It is not a mystery that for the government of the presidente Gabriel Boric The approval of a new constitutional text is key to start its reforms.
However, the polls show a clear trend in favor of Rejection.
That last, despite the fact that the last Cadem poll indicated that 42% would vote Approve, while 45% indicated that they would lean towards Rejection.
The importance of a new Constitution for the Government
In this regard, the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Segpres, Giorgio Jackson, recognized the importance of a new Magna Carta for the Government.
“There are things in our program that see an impediment or an accurate obstacle in the current Constitution,” he said in the TVN National State program.
Although, in any case, he assured that they will look for a way to carry out their government plan.
“It does not mean that we are going to sit idly by, and if the Rejection wins, we are going to try to find a way to get as close as possible to what we proposed,” he emphasized.
Jackson and eventual triumph of the Reject
“We have a four-year mandate and if the Rejection wins, we are going to do everything possible to advance what we have committed to, but objectively there are some matters in which we are going to have a constitutional ceiling that is not going to allow us move forward on those things,” he insisted.
“The government has a duty to put itself in all scenarios,” he said.
Likewise, Jackson questioned an eventual agreement with the opposition to carry out the reforms, without the need for a new constitutional framework.
“The people in the house, I imagine that at the moment of reaching the plebiscite and being able to vote for Approval or Rejection, they will ask themselves if they believe or not those who say that at the moment of rejecting they will change the positions that have had in the last 30 years,” he said.
“People are going to judge him, it doesn’t have to be me, we as a government have the duty of prescinding, and I am not going to pronounce on whether or not I believe the opposition saying that they are going to vote differently than what they have voted in the last 30 years, they will have to show proof that this is the case,” he said.
Government will present pension reform before the Exit Plebiscite
A different case will be the pension reform, which will be presented before the Exit Plebiscite, the head of the Segpres advanced.
“We are going to present it before the constitutional change because we believe that we would not have constitutionality problems,” he assured.
“The drafting of a social security system that can provide the benefits and guarantees that we want to give, obviously in both texts fits more into one than the other,” he added.
“We took over the government with a mandate to reform the pension system to guarantee social security, which in the last 40 years has been handed over to Pension Fund Administrators competing with each other for who can make your money grow the most,” he criticized.
“That model, as we understand it, failed for us and the State should patch this up from different sides. We want to make a more structural change than what has been done, and it does not mean that the private sector cannot have a role, but it will not have the leading role that it has today”, he concluded.
Safe Classroom: “The whole germ of the social outbreak began”
On the other hand, Jackson supported the criticism of the Education Minister, Marco Antonio Ávila, of the Safe Classroom law, given the opposition’s proposal to take up the issue due to acts of violence in schools.
“I think it’s the wrong approach. I believe that we must try to keep young people away from crime, as much as possible from the early age in which they may incur in this. Trying to get them back into the school system,” Jackson questioned.
“It was a lousy strategy and it aggravated the problem for something. After the Safe Classroom Law was that the educational establishments, particularly in Santiago, began the whole germ of the social outbreak, ”he accused.
“It radicalized internal positions. What it generated was a focus of conflict specifically on that and it gave an air of being a hero or a martyr to be in this type of situation, because they were protesting once morest the power established at the time of the new law, of the authority, which in that case was Minister Cubillos and the Mayor, who were figures that were in shock”, he closed.