translated from Spanish: First session of the Constitutional Convention will address request for pardon to prisoners of the revolt and extension of the directive

After the election of the president and vice president of the Constitutional Convention, Elisa Loncon and Jaime Bassa respectively, both authorities called for the organization of the near future of the body. As for the administrative aspect, they will first have a meeting in the morning with the technical secretariat, to make progress on aspects of legal validation of the Constitutional Convention. In this regard, Bassa said that this meeting will serve to “carry out all the institutional transfers and whatever is necessary for this to begin to work from a legal perspective and for this corporation to have an existence.” Later they made the call to begin the regular sessions on the same day Monday, in the same location used on this day – the Pereira Palace – and with a schedule of 10:00 AM until 17:00 pM from Tuesday to Thursday of this week, in order to set a deadline to lay the foundations of the operational requirements and how it will meet from now on. They also pointed out that this Monday, in the first session, the possibility of supporting or not a General Pardon Law will be discussed, within the framework of the arrests carried out in the midst of the social explosion of October 2019. “The decision has been taken to discuss tomorrow, Monday, the support of the Constitutional Convention for the General Pardon Law in order to expedite its processing in the national congress and also to respond to the situation in which people deprived of liberty for political reasons find themselves,” Bassa said in this regard. Another aspect that will also be addressed will be the option of expanding the board of directors, from two members to five or seven, “as has been proposed in the previous days,” according to the elected officials. Likewise, the constituent conventions will have to start working on the formation of the various Commissions, whose number and functioning will depend on the agreed regulation. “I think we all have to start sorting out the logic of work so that we can start to look at the administrative issues. (That is, if there are people returning to their regions, if we start to meet in a hybrid face-to-face mode or rightly if all the stays are extended as long as their families allow it, “said Vice President Bassa in this regard. “The idea is that we can resolve this tomorrow with the technical secretariat, but from now on, for logistical, legal, permit, etc. purposes, we will leave them summoned,” he concluded.

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