Macaya asks to provide “hope” to the Rejection and consider citizen participation to legitimize future reforms

“Giving the Rejection hope, that it is constituted as an option to do things well is part of the challenge.” With these words, the president of the UDI, Senator Javier Macaya, outlined the best campaign strategy for the Rejection to be imposed in the exit plebiscite, a referendum in which he places his hopes of triumph to undertake a series of constitutional reforms that, he said, “must consider citizen participation and enable a mechanism, since the current Constitution establishes something different.”
“I have no doubt that doing things right, providing the Rejection with content, will make that express itself in the preferences of the people, because when you buy a car you do not do it for the next day to change the engine, that happens with the proposal of the Convention,” added the helmsman of the unionism, who specified, in an interview with El Mercurio, the need to confer on this option a “garment of constituting itself as something with hope”.
“We have to be able to identify issues of the current draft that can be part of a Constitution that unites us: recognition of the PP. OO.; the importance of the environmental issue and how fundamental it is to constitute Chile as a Social and Democratic State of Law,” he added.
Likewise, Macaya valued the proposal of the senators of the DC Ximena Rincón and Matías Walker, although he was emphatic in clarifying that this does not mean a long-term political rapprochement with sectors of the former Concertación. “Because despite having had profound differences in the past, here we are in an evaluation of objective and concrete contents of what the constitutional proposal is. Let no one believe that this could lead to a reconstitution of alliances,” he said.
Macaya ruled out that the proposal of both senators of the Falange is, in the end, a political maneuver to strengthen the Rejection. “The 4/7 is precisely the certainty that the process continues, and should be seen as a guarantee and a sign of good faith on the part of that world (…) The Government itself has had the ability to realize and change its mind regarding the need to have a mobility pass that in the past did not support it, with the state of emergency in the southern macrozone and the withdrawals. The PC itself, which was not part of the Agreement of November 15, changed its mind and today becomes part of the process.”
On the risks that he foresees with the eventual triumph of the Approve in the plebiscite of September 4, Macaya said that “it would be a path that will not only take a very long time, decades, environmental lawyers have said, in matters of native peoples, of regional structures. Not just decades, it’s billions of dollars going to go to the state bureaucracy, to the politicians.”

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