The President, Gabriel Boric, had to come out to clarify his statements during his speech at Enade, following his words generated the sensation that if there was no pension reform, there would be no reform to the political system, a primary issue for the right.
Immediately followingwards, the government clarified that although there is a willingness to advance changes to the political system in this administration, it would be inexplicable for citizens to advance in a transversal agreement on political matters and not on pension reform.
“Once once more, President Boric surprises us with his changes in position. First he conditions the reform to the political system, to the progress of other projects, but 48 hours later he does show himself available to make those changes. It is a setback that, by the way, we value, but it requires demonstrating it with concrete facts to be credible,” said UDI deputy, Cristóbal Martínez.
“As a bench we have already presented several projects that seek to improve the political system. One, so that only the parties that achieve -at least- 5% of the votes in the parliamentary election can be part of the congress. Another, to put an end to the logic of the ‘waywards’, removing from office those who renounce the party for which they were elected. And one last thing, to reduce the number of deputies from 155 to 120,” he added.
Martínez stated that “we are absolutely convinced that these proposals will allow for greater governability in the country, will improve representativeness and will allow us to return to the logic of great agreements.”
From RN, deputy Frank Sauerbaum, stated that “the political fragmentation that the national congress has today, with 21 political parties in the Chamber of Deputies, for example, obviously prevents reaching agreements, consensus and conversations. It makes it almost impossible to make forceful and important reforms that change people’s lives. Therefore, the political system has to have an adjustment. A mistake was made by ending the binomial system and ending with a corrected proportional system that is also, on the other hand, combined with the promotion of new political forces financing it with State resources,” he asserted.
He added that “today it is a business to create small political parties that have one or two deputies who ultimately become ‘pirate’ parliamentarians that no one knows to whom they respond or what ideas they have, and that do no good for democracy or agreements.” and consensus that the country requires to make the changes that people are demanding. Therefore, President Boric has had to go back or go back on what he had initially said, conditioning the conversation of the political system on other reforms, such as the pension system, which have nothing to do with one thing or the other. As the president of the Chamber, Karol Cariola, said, ‘eat gum and walk at the same time,’” she said.
Sauerbaum stressed that “we must have the ability to seek a quick understanding regarding political reforms so that other reforms can then be carried out much more quickly and with more understanding.”
Best parties and politicians
From the side closest to the ruling party, the ind.-DC deputy, Felipe Camaño, stated that “personally, I feel that not only is a reform of the political system necessary, I believe that the parties themselves have to be reformed. Today 5% of the population is active in political parties, when in the 60’s that percentage exceeded 70%. And even if we reform the system, if the parties fail to make people trust them once more, the system will continue to fail. Today people are tired of the parties due to all the cases of corruption that we have learned regarding in recent years. MOP-Gate, Penta, Soquimich cases, and now the Agreements case. So let’s not be surprised if people don’t trust,” he asserted.
He emphasized that “a reform alone will not change or improve our political system. What we need are better parties and better politicians.”
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