translated from Spanish: Loncón clarified statements about Mandela and responded to criticisms of Chile Vamos: “I am the president of the Convention, not the president of Chile”

Elisa Loncón, was consulted on Tuesday morning about the decision of the Constituents of Chile Vamos to take the table that she leads with Jaime Bassa to the Ethics Commission of the instance. This is because of the statements made in recent days, which, according to the pro-government representatives, have contributed to “defrauding the hopes that the citizens have placed on our shoulders.” Among the statements they are targeting include Loncón’s response to the conflict in La Araucanía, where he said he does not have “Mandela’s standard at this time to ask for the weapons to be lowered.” To this, they add their answer about the “discomfort” that would be felt by the sectors of the “rejection” at the convention, calling them a “sector of privilege”. The academic reviewed her words and specifically clarified her pronouncement on former South African president and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.” When I spoke to Mandela’s standard, it has to do directly with the power that Mandela wielded in the presidency. He was able to install democracy and a job that goes to the level of the presidency.” I am the president of the Convention, I am not the president of Chile, I have a limited time of one year to fulfill the mandate of the people to write the Constitution,” he added. He also replied that “we cannot answer all the political junctures that occur because in reality it is up to the government to respond to political circumstances, especially the issues of violence.” That said, he showed a series of books and essays, which he assured would leave available to the conventional ones, in order to create a plurinational library. This, he argued, to understand “the new paradigms, which have the regions, the peoples. And whoever does not have it, there is literature (…) that we can read and read for the understanding of the speeches that come out of the convention”.

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