Former President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle made his position transparent in the face of the exit plebiscite, and announced that he will vote against it on September 4. This, despite the fact that his party, the DC, was defined by approval.
From the exConcertación they reacted to the announcement of former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, who this Friday, He announced that he will vote “rejection” in the plebiscite on September 4, arguing that he has insurmountable discrepancies with the proposed new Constitution.
Frei’s announcement generated diverse reactions in the center-left and center parties, for example in the DC, a party where the former president is a member, they believe that he should bow to the approval as well as the community.
The president of the DC, Felipe Delpin, called on the former president to respect “the traditions” of the community, after the national board voted to support the plebiscite on September 4.
But other leaders, who have announced that they will vote rejection despite the party’s decision, highlighted Frei’s decision, such as the case of Senator Matías Walker, who called the former president “brave.”
“I share the strong, clear, courageous position, which clearly points out that the Convention proposal compromises the country’s peace, prosperity and development,” said Walker.
A similar view is held by the only DC militant in the former Convention, Fuad Chahín, who indicated that the good things in the proposed new Constitution should be recovered.
“The responsibility of the Democrats is to take care of and deepen our democracy, and recover the good things proposed by the Convention in a new process,” Chahín said.
It should be remembered that Frei expressed that he considers that the political system that the text designs “does not establish an adequate balance and division of powers.”
“It creates an omnipotent Chamber and is exposed to the fact that an occasional majority that controls the presidency and the political Chamber, can advance towards a dictatorial regime of those that are being frequent in the world,” he details.
Both in the opposition and in the ruling party they referred to what will happen after the plebiscite. For example, PPD senator Ricardo Lagos Weber called on the right to make transparent what reforms he is willing to approve.
“The right wing should make it explicit and be very clear in saying what things it is willing to modify, it is not enough to say “rejection to reform” and we have not heard of a single proposal of what things they want to reform from the 1980s charter,” he indicated.
For his part, the former president of the RN, Mario Desbordes, questioned that the Government has not initiated a dialogue with the different political sectors, while the deputy of the Democratic Revolution (RD), Catalina Pérez, said that the citizens must first make a pronouncement , and then there will be time to talk.