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With a call for dialogue assumed the five deputy vice presidencies that will accompany María Elisa Quinteros (Constituent Social Movements) and Gaspar Domínguez (Non-Neutral Independent) in the extended board of directors of the Constitutional Convention.
Bárbara Sepúlveda (Communist Party), Amaya Alvez (Broad Front), Tomás Laibe (Socialist Collective), Lidia González (yagán) and Natividad Llanquileo (Mapuche) were proclaimed during the complex session this Thursday, marked by a contagion within the constituent organ.
The conventional ones they needed 24 sponsorships from their peers to be part of the front line. The exception were the members of the native peoples, who only required eight sponsorships.
After assuming, the conventional Lidia gonzalez stressed that “this was a decision of a collective work as appropriate, as we have worked the seats, you can see decentralization, a people from the south that is going to take this representation. If we can agree on the issues, there will always be a conversation and a dialogue ”.
What’s more, González exhibited his concern regarding the difficulties in setting up the Indigenous Consultation, although he claimed to have “all the faith that we are going to carry it forward, we need this query to be participatory binding and that reaches the peoples with all the information that corresponds”,
For his part, his pair Thomas Laibe He called to continue “deepening the dialogue, the bridges of the different groups of this Convention, because yesterday we had a complex, difficult day, but what is coming forward is not isolating oneself, it is not looking at the obligation, the other way around, looking at people who are different, with whom we had differences, and that today we have to meet, build dialogue and generate a new Constitution for Chile ” .
Meanwhile, the conventional Barbara Sepulveda assured that “we will defend the incorporation of the rights that we lack. On the distribution of power, always with a gender perspective. (…) With great optimism I say ‘get ready’, because we are going to approve the first feminist Constitution in the world ”.
While, Amaya alvez indicated having “doubts and fear of being here today, and I feel the responsibility of channeling a fruitful dialogue ”.
“I understand that like all collective work with much deliberation, open to dialogue and persuasion. and it seems to me that they are great tasks that we have, it is not easy, but it seems to me that this is the formula that usually works ”, he added.
Finally, the Mapuche representative Natividad Llanquileo assured assume “this responsibility with a vital concern: popular participation. We have not adequately communicated to our peoples the work carried out here and the way they have to influence the constitutional process ”.
We still have to go through Chile and the Constituent People to define who will be their representatives at the table. The names of Cristián Monckeberg and Daniel Bravo respectively appear.
