Faced with constituent failure, President Boric opens up to mixed body despite the fact that it is “an imperfect agreement”

The constituent process is still entangled and despite the efforts of the parliamentarians represented in Congress, it has not been possible to unblock the main knot: the composition of the body that will be responsible for drafting the New Constitution.
In the ruling party they are in favor of this body being elected 100% by the citizens. On the other hand, in the opposition, they want the composition to be divided into 50% elected and another 50% appointed, as a committee of experts.
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But in the event that this process finally fails and that a new Constitution is not drafted, in the ruling party they have already begun to cede positions to get closer to that of the right. Yesterday it was the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Raul Soto (PPD) and today it is the same President Gabriel Boric, who said he was in favor of a mixed body, although it is not what he had in mind at first.
“It’s not what we as a government alliance would like. (..) We have defended the importance of a 100% elected body,” Boric said after the enactment of the 2023 Budget Law.
“However, an imperfect agreement is preferable to no agreement,” he emphasized, adding that “we cannot continue to delay the constitutional discussion any longer,” which would be seen as a new failure of the Boric administration, which has bet all its chips on a new Magna Carta elaborated during his presidential term.
In this context, the President pointed to the priority of separating differences for the “common good of the homeland.”

Finally, he requested that “the political parties rise to the occasion and be able to deliver a clear, concrete mechanism, with more democracy for the realization of a new social pact to our country.”

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