Beatriz Sánchez responds to criticism for nomination to preside over the CC: “It has more of an electoral tone than a real depth”

On January 4, 2022, the new members of the board of directors of the Constitutional Convention will be elected. Among the candidates is the journalist and representative of the Frente Amplio, Beatriz Sánchez, who came out in the face of criticism against her nomination to succeed the Mapuche academic Elisa Loncon.
For the position of president also sound the names of Patricia Politzer (Independent Non-Neutral), Cristina Dorador (Constituent Social Movements), and Ramona Reyes (Socialist Collective).
The criticism came from the conventional Politzer and Benito Baranda, who, pointing to the inconvenience of the instance appearing led by the same forces that will arrive in March to the Executive with Gabriel Boric, in conversation with Cooperativa, rejected the possibility that the new table be headed by the Broad Front.
“People may think that coming to power within the Convention will make the President’s government program become a Constitution, which is not the case,” said the former director of the Hogar de Cristo, adding: “I do not have the suspicion, because I am within the Convention, but the citizenship can have it and we must try to reduce all those spaces that can later generate fragility for the Exit plebiscite.” “It looks better that the head of the Convention is not from the same political sector of the new government,” Politzer agreed.
Beatriz Sánchez responded to the same radio outlet: “I think, and I say it with great affection, because I have a lot of affection for all the people who point to us today, who have more of an electoral tone than a real depth.”
“The fact that the vote to elect the table is papal makes reaching an agreement earlier very difficult. There is a lot of dialogue, a lot of conversation, but the agreement is reached in the moment. Everyone is in competition,” said the constituent, assuring that “to say that there is interference with a President who is going to enter into office almost when we are at the end of the process in reality I think that it only has an electoral tinge today and is to stain the autonomy that we have had as a Broad Front throughout the process.”
“We were democratically elected and we are asked today to subtract, when all the collectives are putting their best people to face this process that is coming,” said the former candidate to La Moneda.
Finally, asked if she is available to lead the new stage of the Convention, Sánchez acknowledged: “If you ask me, very sincerely, I see myself or would be much more comfortable in a vice presidency than in a presidency. But that’s what I believe.”

Original source in Spanish