A new failure in the constitutional negotiation. The political parties might not reach an agreement and ended up recriminating each other.
This Friday ended a new week of negotiations for a new constituent process, where the ruling party and the opposition still reach an agreement to define if the drafting body of the new proposal will be 100% elected or with appointments.
After the end of the meetings in the National Congress, the president of the Senate, Álvaro Elizalde, explained that the agreement has not yet been reached and that the positions have distanced themselves in the last hours.
“Tonight I feel disappointment, but I believe that we must not give up, we must insist on an agreement for Chile, which is why I want to call on all the political forces that have participated in the dialogue to live up to what Chile demands of us.”
“Chile deserves a Constitution born in democracy, but we understand the frustration and disappointment that many say they feel, and it is still not possible to reach an agreement as Chile deserves,” added Elizalde.
The point in contention continues to be the conformation of the body that will draft the proposal for a new Constitution, while the ruling party presented the idea of a body of 70 members elected by the citizens and a team of support experts, to participate in the harmonization and transition commissions.
And although at one point the parties were close to reaching an agreement, there was even talk of a body similar to the Senate with 50 members, all elected in elections, from Chile Vamos they changed their position and refused to have a 100% elected body.
According to information handled by Radio Bío Bío, Yellows for Chile took the lead in Chile Vamos, now called the bloc for Rejectionand pressured so that an agreement was not reached.
This situation was confirmed by the president of the PPD, Natalia Piergentili, who indicated that Amarillos -a party in formation and with a deputy- pressured to avoid an agreement, to which was added a sector of National Renewal.
“I want to tell you very responsibly that I believe that today we do not have an agreement due to the pressure of Amarillos and the resistance of Renovación Nacional (…) I want public opinion to know that the ruling party did everything possible to offer different alternatives that even electorally we knew were going once morest our political forces, but here there was not the necessary generosity and the truth is that I leave deeply disappointed with the role that Amarillos had”, affirmed Piergentili.