translated from Spanish: NR senators opposed to parity in the constituent process prepare proposal to incentivize women’s participation

This Tuesday, the Official Journal published the reform to Chapter XV of the Constitution, which enables the constituent process, so President Sebastián Piñera now has three days to convene the plebiscite of the 2nd April 6th.
However, some discussions remain. Specifically, gender parity and seats reserved for indigenous and independent peoples. The proposal has already been approved in the first proceeding in the Chamber of Deputies and for the same to happen in the Senate requires a quorum of three,50 votes, so the opposition necessarily requires some official support.
At the UDI, they recognize that these supports will not be found, so they target RN mPs. In fact, two of them that are contrary to parity, Francisco Chahuán and Andrés Allamand, are already preparing some proposals that will otherwise benefit women.
For example, to encourage women’s candidacies, they plan to be allowed to spend twice as much on their campaigns compared to men, or to receive an additional refund for the votes obtained, but without guaranteed results.
“We are in favour of the Quotas Act and greater stimulus for women’s participation, but we are against gender parity in the outcome, because that can affect the proportionality of the vote,” Chahuán said.
While this occurs, Senator Carmen Gloria Aravena (Ind, former Evópoli) slid her support for the parity initiative: “Thanks to rules that favor women, it is that today more women are in politics. Without the Quotas Act, I would not be sitting in that space, many of us would not be in this House, because if we hope that this will naturally happen, it will be hundreds of years for this inequality to be corrected, that is what I absolutely agree with.”

Original source in Spanish