Speaker of the House: “We will not allow uncertainty to be generated that will lead us to a new crisis”

The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Raúl Soto, said that “if the Rejection wins we need to set the rules of the game of a new constitutional process that allows us to reach that new Constitution that is accepted by the people of Chile.” Something that in his opinion “cannot be imposed either by the Government or unilaterally by Congress, therefore we need a political agreement and that must be worked on in advance and many talks are already taking place.”
In an interview with Radio Universo, Deputy Soto said at the same time that “and if the Approve wins that agreement of improvements that was made by the ruling party a few days ago, the truth must be discussed, and agreed with the rest of the political forces that are not part of the Government, because we need to build a legislative majority,” said the PDP militant.
The parliamentarian stressed that “the important thing is the scenario after the Plebiscite on September 5 for a very simple reason, today everything is very permeated by the environment and the electoral context, it is very difficult for those who are for one option to say things that can favor the other option, that has cost a little that the mood of agreement is explicit. ”
Soto emphasized in that sense that “we are going to exhaust all instances of dialogue so that the country has clarity on September 5, and the Government also regarding what is the itinerary of this constituent process after the Plebiscite, win the Approval or win the Rejection. I think that is the main thing, we are not going to allow a vacuum of institutionality or power to be generated, an uncertainty that leads us to a new crisis, no.”
Deputy Soto said that “the agreements that we are going to require will have to be as transversal as possible and I hope that from September 5 we will have the ability to rebuild political and human relations (…) I don’t think it’s good that beyond the result we end up more divided.” Likewise, the head of the Chamber said that “the Government cannot impose a vision regarding what it wants and therefore, there must be a political conversation in the sense of agreeing on what the content of that project will be” on the constituent process, whatever the result of the Exit Plebiscite.

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