The President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, referred to the statement of former President Ricardo Lagos in the face of the exit plebiscite for a new Constitution on September 4.
“It seems to me that what the former president points out is very respectable given his trajectory and that he puts two scenarios that for me are quite clear.”
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It should be remembered that in his letter, Lagos maintained the suspense regarding the option he will choose, but he did assure that neither the proposal of the Convention, nor the current Magna Carta, generate consensus in the citizenship.
“Chile needs and deserves a Constitution that fosters consensus and that, sooner rather than later, allows us to stop debating about it in order to live within it. And because neither of the two texts that may result from the plebiscite of September 4 is in a position to achieve it, I am convinced that the relevant political challenge is to find a way to address the continuity of the constitutional debate until reaching a text capable of attracting a high degree of citizen acceptance, “said Lagos.
Given this, President Boric addressed the statements of former President Lagos, stating that he is open to “making improvements” to the proposal for a new Constitution in case it is approved, taking advantage of criticizing the right in case the Rejection option triumphs.
“If the Constitution is approved, we must make improvements, as the president of the Convention pointed out yesterday, as Gaspar Domínguez pointed out, I myself as President of the Republic agree that we must have that provision,” he said.
“In the other option, that the Rejection wins, we must depend on the historical veto that the right has had in the last 30 years to make substantive reforms to the Constitution,” he said.
In that sense, the head of state said that “it is the people who will have to decide. Both options are legitimate. Our role as a government is for all Chileans to vote informed. And hopefully there will be a debate with high visions.”
In the same vein, the President reiterated the criticism of the opposition, assuring that “in a case we will have to depend, I insist, on the historical veto that the right has exercised, where some parliamentarians and some of their leaders, said that they do not believe in a new Constitution. And in the other, reforms can be made that improve the text, as I have seen in the disposition of most of the political actors”
“President Lagos has every right to deliver the position he deems appropriate,” the president concluded.
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