President UDI points to a constituent process “without pause, but without haste” so that it does not run into municipal elections in 2024

Four days after the resounding triumph of the Rejection over the Approval, the second half of the constituent process continues to take shape, which brought together the presidents and heads of caucuses of the parties with parliamentary representation with the presidents of both houses of Congress.
In the first meeting of the instance, the sectors showed their preferences around the elaboration of a new proposal for a Constitution, without reaching a consensus on the mechanism for it. Together, they established that next Monday they will resume talks to set an itinerary.
Given the possible mechanisms to be used, the president of the UDI, Javier Macaya, warned that there are two factors to consider.
“On the one hand, there are some maximalists who intend to repeat exactly the mechanism of the conventional, with the same reserved seats, with the same formula, which is not only a mistake in itself, because the process failed at the weekend, and is to ignore the result of a large majority of Chileans who said no to that formula and the result that emanated from there,” Held.
In that line, he pointed to another sector “that intend to leave everything the same, that they say that we must maintain the status quo and do nothing. Both positions contribute to polarizing the environment.”
For Macaya, the difference with the last instance is that “this time you do not have to negotiate with violence, with the imposition of force to get something out quickly.”
That is why he said that the process must be carried out “without pause, but without haste”, so that it does not run into the next electoral process on the way: the municipal elections of 2024.

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