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February 1 / SANTIAGO The president-elect, Gabriel Boric, enters his command located in Calle Condell 249 of the cmuna de Providencia PHOTO: LUKAS SOLIS / AGENCIA UNO
The debate on the viability of the norms that have been presented by the different collectives to be discussed within the Constitutional Convention refloated this Wednesday due to a proposal presented by 8 conventions, which seeks to eliminate the three powers of the State and replace them with a Plurinational Assembly of Workers and Peoples. This discussion was joined by the President-elect himself, Gabriel Boric, when he supported a criticism, through his Twitter account, made once morest the initiative in question.
So what did the future president to respond with a terse “This” in the social network to a message of the constituent Constance Schonhaut (CS) -who form part of his narrow circle, in which the conventional points out that the initiative is led by the constituent Maria Magdalena Rivera (Ind) “is out of all the democratic framework that has been sustained for the design of the new Constitution”.
This. https://t.co/K5HZftiZel
– Gabriel Boric Font (@gabrielboric) February 9, 2022
The proposal was submitted to the Political System Committee of the drafting body, where it must be voted on before an eventual discussion in the plenary. During the last hours, the idea generated criticism from various sectors of the political spectrum.
Schonhaut called for tranquility on his social networks, asking ” that there be no panic. The proposal is only of 8 conventional and is voted in committee of Political System””
Proposal
The initiative, which seeks to eliminate the three powers of the State and replace them with a Plurinational Assembly of Workers and Peoples, along with María Rivera, she is also sponsored by seven other conventions from the former List of the People and reserved seats: Dayyana González, Eric Chinga, Alejandra Pérez, Isabel Godoy, Elsa Labraña, Carolina Vilches and Ivanna Olivares.
In the text, it is ensured that the separation of the powers of the State is “fully functional to bourgeois rule, which allows large employers to control the various institutions without ever losing total control of the state apparatus (not to be revolutionary periods)”.
In its articles, it is proposed that the assembly would be composed of 600 representatives elected by grassroots territorial assemblies by branch of productive sectors and services, communal, native peoples and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces” and that ” it will assume the Legislative, Executive and Judicial functions and command of the Armed Forces.”
It adds that this should guarantee “the right to self-determination of all peoples who do not want to be part of the Chilean State” and that “the future plurinational assembly should have as one of its fundamental principles peace among peoples and the rejection of any form of annexation of territories traditionally occupied by other peoples.”
It also adds that”the salaries of political representatives may not be higher than the salary of a skilled worker in Large Copper Mining, the country’s main economic branch.”
React
In this regard, the former vice-president of the drafting body, Mr. Liuhuabing, he stated that the proposal ” is absolutely outside the cultural margins of our country. It is part of the discussion that although, as any idea is legitimate to be raised, it does not have, I believe, any possibility of moving forward.”
From the other sidewalk, the constituent of Vamos por Chile, Ms. Angela Zhang, harshly questioned the initiative of María Magdalena Rivera, noting in his Twitter account that ” the model of Constitution is no longer the Chavista dictatorship but the totalitarianism of the former Soviet Union.”
Your UDI pair, Mr. Liuhuabing, he added to the criticism: “600 assembly members elected by” grassroots assemblies by branch of productive sectors and services” and not the citizenry!”, he wrote on the same social network.
Feasibility
The debate on the feasibility of the proposals presented in the Convention had begun days ago, when the directive that they head María Elisa Quinteros and Gaspar Domínguez he called all the forces that make up the body to a meeting to make them present the challenge of agreeing the rules and the consequences of not doing so, in terms of the deadline established in the law for the drafting of the new Constitution.
According to some of the attendees, both Quinteros (MSC) and Domínguez (INN) emphasized the urgency of the deadlines and offered an invitation to talk to avoid “saturation of parallel initiatives.”
From the table they point out that reaching agreements between groups is key if you want to meet the budgeted deadline, since this will allow you to present less indications and more transversal.
During this day, the vice-president of the drafting body, Gaspar Dominguez, he returned to the subject: “Since the initiatives and indications to be voted on in plenary must be approved by a quorum of 2/3, we have called for all the conditions to be promoted so that the discussions within the committees are those that take place with the logic of 2/3”.
“We must promote the conditions so that there are broad and cross-cutting support in the commissions and therefore be reflected in the plenary, ” he added, although he stressed that”all the rules that have sponsorship of 8 conventions have the same status and, therefore, the same possibility of being discussed.”
For its part, the conventional Agustin Squella (ind / Liberal Party) indicated that although “the vast majority of proposals for constitutional norms are reasonable and sensible (…) we all realize that there has been (…) proposals that are crazy and entirely unfeasible. Then one cannot help thinking that perhaps behind these proposals there is a desire for personal figuration of the constituent who presents it or of the collective it represents.”
