The setback of the first session of the Constitutional Convention in the former Congress has led all eyes to the responsibility of La Moneda, specifically to the Minister of the Presidency, Juan José Ossa, in his capacity as hierarchical superior of Francisco Encina, the executive secretary of the Administrative Secretariat unit of the Constitutional Convention. , responsible for having the process enabled.
This is how once the suspension of the session was confirmed, the members of the Socialist Collective and then I approve dignity issued statements to demand the resignation of the secretary of state, along with that of Francisco Encina.
“The Convention had to meet in 4 different rooms to comply with the COVID capacity standard, and when we attended we discovered with surprise and indignation that the 4 rooms were not interconnected, there were no audio or microphones to communicate or screens enabled to see us. Deliberation and operation was impossible and we had to cancel the session,” said Pedro Muñoz, a conventional PS for the 24th district.
For this reason, the Socialist Collective agreed to “request the resignation of Minister Juan José Ossa for notable dereliction of duty and repeated lack of willingness to the Constitutional Convention.”
“We hold the government of Sebastián Piñera responsible for the permanent lack of interest in the functioning of the Convention,” added the statement of the group that brings together 15 conventioneers.
Munoz pointed to Francisco Encina, the government’s liaison with the Convention, “who earns a salary of 7 and a half million pesos and has not done his job.” “But it is an official who is under the responsibility of a minister,” he added.
In A aprueba Dignidad (the pact that brings together the FA and the PC) they joined the pressure, noting that “we demand that the political responsibilities on Minister Ossa be asserted through his immediate resignation and the administrative responsibilities of the undersecretary (Máximo) Pavez and the official Encina” (CHECK THE DECARATION OF I APPROVE DIGNITY HERE)
According to the statement read by Bárbara Sepúlveda (PC) and Giovanna Roa (RD), today’s events “show a serious negligence in the performance of the functions of the Administrative Secretariat Unit, under the Undersecretary General of the Presidency,” and that explains the allusion to Pavez.
Support for the table
From the Socialist Collective they also came out in support of the directive, which was blamed by the right for the failure of the session.
“We express our support for the roundtable composed of Dr. Elisa Loncon and Jaime Bassa and we demand that the government immediately resolve what has been requested,” they added.
Meanwhile, from A aprueba Dignidad they also gave a boost to the directive, stating that “we support the decision of the Bureau of the Constitutional Convention, not to have started the inaugural session, under these minimum conditions that the government should ensure.”
“Sabotage”
According to Munoz, what happened suggests that it is a “boycott of the table,” because “today we have fundamental points to address,” considering that in today’s agenda of this first session it was planned to address the statement on the detainees of the social explosion, which has already caused strong friction within the entity and a harsh statement by Chile Vamos against.
In A aprueba Dignidad they also alluded to this situation, noting that there was a “lack of respect for the three organizations representing relatives of prisoners of the outbreak, who were hoping to enter to present to the Convention a report on the situation of their relatives, which could not be done due to this situation.”
“I even think that this is sabotage,” said designer Jorge Baradit, a member of the Socialist Collective.
“We have not had any communication with the government, we have had no response. ” We took more than two hours (…) with 4 friends we could connect 4 rooms yesterday and six months ago this was planned” and should be ready, baradit added.
In view of the session forced to be rescheduled, in A aprueba Dignidad they demanded that the government “deliver the explanations of the case to the Constitutional Convention and to all of Chile regarding the negligent management of the budget of more than 850 million pesos destined to the habilitation of the workspaces. We also demand that all the necessary extraordinary measures be taken to make them aware of thethey are authorized under the above conditions first thing in the morning.”
