Tuesday June 14, 2022 | 10:03
“When we entered this Convention, he did not come to greet us or the president, because he was a Mapuche,” he said of Piñera. “As a politician, as president, she… I also have things on my mind: that she started that the Mapuche were terrorists. We are not terrorists,” he commented on Bachelet.
This Tuesday morning the machi Francisca Linconaoconventional for reserved seats, clarified that does not want former presidents at the closing ceremony of the Constitutional Convention.
“I disagree,” he said. “We have a new President. Come with your team.”he added.
After that, the ancestral authority aimed its sights specifically once morest Sebastián Piñera and Michelle Bachelet.
Regarding the former president, the machi accused that “when we entered this Convention nor did he come to greet us nor to the president, because she was a Mapuche”.
“Then I do not agree that former president, former presidents come. I do not accept, ”she settled.
Asked precisely for the allusion to Bachelet, Linconao explained his point of view.
“As a politician, as president, she… I also have things on my mind: that It began that the Mapuche were terrorists. We are not terrorists”he complemented.
Whether or not to bring former heads of state to the closing ceremony of the Convention ignites citizen debate and within the body itself.
For example, Vice President Gaspar Domínguez wants to issue the invitations, but many constituents are opposed.
While some explain the decision by the capacity or because their figures represent the Chile that is sought to change, others understand that simply they do not want to have Sebastián Piñera in the historic closing of the process.