New political movement “Amarillos por Chile” criticizes the Convention and warns: “We will exercise the legitimate and necessary right to criticism if the Convention goes astray and leads us to a dead end

The new political movement “Amarillos por Chile”, which has the presence of well-known faces of national politics, manifested itself in a document against the Constitutional Convention, alluding, among other things, to its “refoundational euphoria”.
“We yellows feel the passion for the possible that consists of doing things well done, getting the necessary changes without destroying the good, betting on a better future without thinking that it starts from scratch,” the text begins. “History – especially in Latin America – has shown that going after the impossible and refounding everything, instead of solving inequalities and abuses, has only brought more suffering and more poverty for the great majority,” he adds.
The statement, signed by Carolina Goic, Fulvio Rossi, Jaime Campos, Andrés Velasco, Mariana Aylwin, Jorge Burgos, among other prominent figures, summons the drafting body, to avoid what they call an “institutional explosion”.
“When the possibility is glimpsed that the Constitutional Convention, instead of offering the country a Constitution that includes us all and helps build a social pact, leads us to a dead end that pushes many of those who voted ‘I approve’ and want the constitutional process to result, to be left with no other possible option than to oppose a ‘No’ to a Constitution that does not represent us all,” Hold.
“Many of the proposals that have emanated from the commissions and some of those that are already reaching 2/3 in the Plenary are lighting the warning signal among those who do not want the deconstruction of Chile, nor its dismemberment, nor its refoundation from scratch, but a new beginning that collects the best that we have all built together in these decades, “- Underline. “The spirit that must prevail in the Convention must be that of dialogue, conversation, real listening to those who think differently,” they add.
On the other hand, “Amarillos por Chile”, maintains that they have given their first official statement to “contribute to this fundamental crossroads of our political and institutional history” and give their opinion regarding the process of drafting a new Magna Carta.
“We are here to support any initiative that goes in the direction of balance, restraint, common sense, unrestricted respect for Democracy (without surnames), the rule of law, freedom and also the promotion of social rights, reforming and improving both the market and the State,” the text states. “We will raise our voices forcefully in the face of any attempt to lead us down the wrong path to repeat failed refoundational experiments in all parts of the world,” he adds.
Given their support for the drafting body, the political movement announced that they will support it as long as it complies with the path that they believe is the right one.
“We will support the work of the Convention if it moves in the democratic direction indicated, but
we will exercise the legitimate and necessary right to criticism if the Convention goes astray and leads us to an alley
no exit. Not to do so would be irresponsible. We are worried, we turn on the alarms and
turning them on does not mean being catastrophists. A catastrophe would be to arrive at an unpresentable text at the end of
the discussion or not having any text to present,” the document details.
“This is our first statement, but it won’t be our last. We want many Chileans who today feel politically orphaned, to know that the Yellows are here and now, at this moment.
decisive of our history. Yellow is one of the fundamental colors of spring and that is what
that we want for Chile, not a regression or a leap into the void,” they conclude.

Original source in Spanish

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