“I am born with the reflection that sometimes in life it takes a little humility.”
With these words, Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC) addressed the decision of former President Eduardo Frei to vote Rejection in the exit plebiscite on September 4, without respecting the official position of the party that is going for the Approve.
It should be remembered that during the night of last Wednesday, the National Board of the collectivity, headed by the president of the DC, Felipe Delpin, agreed -by 63% of the votes- that they would support the proposal for a new Constitution emanating from the Constitutional Convention. Meanwhile, 36% were for the Rejection.
During this Friday, former President Eduardo Frei issued a statement, where he confirmed that he will reject in the exit plebiscite, since “I have insurmountable discrepancies on several contents of this proposal.”
Given this, Senator Francisco Huenchumilla (DC), said that Frei’s words “go in the opposite direction to the decision adopted by the highest body of the Christian Democracy such as its National Board, in order that all Christian Democrats will be for the Approval.”
“I ask myself the question: when a person is former president of the Republic, does he have any special privileges that allow him to be against what his party decided? A former president has honors and dignities, for the high office he held, but I do not believe that he has privileges as a citizen, because in Chile there is no monarchy, and when the president leaves that position he returns to be an ordinary citizen, and maintains the respect and dignities of the position, but does not maintain privileges over the rest of his fellow citizens. ” Emphasized.
“If you are a member of a party, I believe that we must respect what hundreds of ordinary militants, ordinary and ordinary, who make up the National Board, agreed in a clean, democratic process, that we must be as a party with the Approve and therefore the Rejection is discarded,” he added.
In the same vein, Huenchumilla said that “in the DC there are no feudalisms, there is no aristocracy that overlaps the militants and this also runs for other comrades who may have high positions.”
“Who gives you the right to rebel against the decision of a regular and maximum body of the party that makes a decision? Why some are going to feel privileged to say ‘look at this does not affect me, it does not reach me, I do not accept it’, in circumstances where a crucial political decision is being made for the country, then I do not like those self-privileges granted by themselves. I feel that there is a certain arrogance to believe that you are superior to others,” Huenchumilla said.
“This type of haughty and arrogant attitude towards ordinary militants does not correspond in a democratic party,” he added.
On the other hand, Huenchumilla had words for the table of the Falange, led by the mayor of La Granja, Felipe Delpin, whom he urged to begin a process of “refichaje” of the party and thus advance in an ideological congress.
“I hope that the board headed by Felipe Delpin, with the support it has from the National Board, can face a great task, in modernizing the party, in that we hold an ideological congress, that we debate the issues and the great ideas and issues of the country,” he said.
“But at the same time make a refichaje of the party, where we know who we are and participate with our rights and obligations, and we will really sincerely an internal democratic procedure, completely alien to any kind of ignoble operations between us, in such a way that everything we agree is not only a regulatory thing, but also legitimate.” Added.
“We will really establish an internal democratic procedure, completely alien to any kind of ignoble operations between us. In such a way that everything we agree on is a thing not only regulatory, but legitimate, as was the case of the Junta, but that has to be transmitted to the whole functioning of the party,” he concluded.
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