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“To the extent that we are collecting the different opinions, starting with those of Chile Vamos, the government is going to adopt the appropriate position,” said Segpres Minister Juan Jose Ossa.
The minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency (Segpres), Juan Jose Ossa, referred to the approval in the Chamber of Deputies of the bill that restores compulsory voting. “There is no penalty for those who do not comply with what is being sought now. In that sense, we do not want to see a constitutional reform that is paper-based. If what is really being sought is to change the paradigm again on whether going to vote is a duty, then we have to do it well, think it through, there is still time in the Senate,” he said. With this, the secretary of state said that “it is not very common to have automatic registration and compulsory voting. Consequently, the call is to see if there will be any possibility of establishing disincorporation mechanisms.” In addition, on what will be done next, Ossa indicated that “we want to see what the atmosphere of the Senate is.” As he explained, “to the extent that we collect the different opinions, starting with those of Chile Vamos, the government will adopt the appropriate position, what we do welcome is that the main defects of this project were corrected.”
