The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, was consulted regarding the official position of the government of Gabriel Boric regarding the initiative that the Senate Constitution, Legislation and Justice Commission approved this Tuesday and that reduces the quorum to 4/7 to make changes to the Magna Carta.
The project promoted by DC senators Ximena Rincón and Matías Walker, with the support of Chile Vamos, has been proposed as a way to make a “Plan B” feasible in the event of a possible victory for Rejection in the September constitutional plebiscite. Despite discomfort in sectors of the ruling party, the project advances in Congress without resistance from La Moneda, but with a conspicuous absence from the Executive in the process.
“First, we from the government are very focused today on continuing to govern and for that at this moment the tax reform is beginning to be processed, which for us is an essential aspect to be able to carry out social policies, we also have the reform project to pensions, which is something that we will be entering next month, for which we need broad consensus so that it can be generated,” Jackson explained to the press at the Valparaíso Congress.
Then the head of the Segpres, said that the project to reform the Constitution “the truth is that it is a parliamentary initiative.”
“Of course there is parliamentary freedom and I think It is, of course, good news that sectors that historically opposed removing those locks that prevented discussing the Constitution, today, on the brink of a plebiscite, are opening up”held.
Jackson noted that “also it is worth remembering that for 4/7 there are initiatives that have fallenfor example, the reform to consecrate the human right to water, which was voted on in January 2020, did not obtain 4/7, therefore, Even so, in some essential aspects, such as water, at least in the record that exists in the National Congress, it is difficult to achieve that quorum for aspects as fundamental as the right to water.”
In that sense, he said he agreed with President Gabriel Boric, in the statement made by the president that if the Rejection wins the plebiscite, the constitutional changes will be conditioned “to the historic veto exercised by the right”.
“It is a finding, the votes of those who have not previously agreed with that are needed,” the minister stated.
