[Politics] Convention approves proposal of the table to resolve controversy by 2/3 and postpones voting of regulation

[FNX Magokiler]

The Plenary of the Constitutional Convention approved this Thursday by 137 votes in favor, 9 against and 3 abstentions the proposal of the board of directors to postpone the general vote of the main regulation, Ethics and Indigenous Participation for next Tuesday and open a space to define the voting quorums of norms. The document was generated after the tension that was generated in the hemicycle during the first part of the session held this morning at the headquarters of the Congress in Santiago, in which conventional indigenous peoples accused the authorities of the organ of defining in advance that some of his proposals had to be voted 2/3.

To correct the issue, President Elisa Loncon, together with Vice President Jaime Bassa, and the Deputy Vice Presidents Tiare Aguilera, Rodrigo Álvarez, Lorena Céspedes, Elisa Giustinianovich, Isabel Godoy and Pedro Muñoz, prepared the text that was put to a vote after the resumption of the encounter, which started after 3:20 pm. In this regard, the head of the institution commented that "it is important for you to know that the board of directors has taken the time to listen to the different voices that came out here in the morning and those that came out later. We are in charge of the problem of solitary confinement. gave, we apologize. " "Along these lines, we are so different, so diverse, that within all that it is up to the table to bring together all those differences and govern with all those differences, and it is not easy as you saw it. It has never been easy, but it is ours. commitment to work and it is what has allowed us to advance step by step, "he added. According to Loncon, "we deeply talk about the fact that we live and we agree that part of the problem is that we have to build a decision-making construction process at this same table. When that process is not discussed enough, these crises occur that are gave ". "But that is what we have to do, we have no choice and in that context is that we listen to each other and agree to incorporate in the afternoon of now to deliver a work proposal to move forward," he said, and then give the floor to the provisional secretary of the Convention, John Smok, who proceeded to detail the document.

 

 

Details of the proposal The approved text established the need to resume the suspended session due to the incidents involving the reserved seats and to allocate today's session and this Friday "only to the deliberation of the regulatory proposals in the table, without voting. the one that will take place next Tuesday as will be indicated ". Likewise, it indicates that a period will be opened until 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10 "so that, with the sponsorship of at least 30 conventions, the request for certain regulations to be submitted in writing to the Convention Secretariat considered as a special two-thirds quorum, identifying them precisely ”.

The agreement also includes a mandate to the table to prepare "a consolidated document that contains all of the rules presented in the Secretariat, without being able to exclude any" and "send to all the conventioneers the consolidated of the special quorum rules, which must be done no later than Sunday, September 12 at 7:00 p.m. ". In point six, this Monday was set at 7:00 p.m. as the deadline for requesting "a separate vote on any of the rules contained in the consolidated text, if it is considered that they do not require approval with a two-thirds quorum. of the conventional constituents in exercise. This petition will require the sponsorship of 15 conventional constituents ". It was also agreed to call a plenary session on Tuesday, September 14, to submit the proposed regulatory norms to a general vote, along with detailing the definition mechanism, which implies at least three alternatives. First, that "the ratification by the Plenary of the qualified two-thirds norms must be approved by the absolute majority of the conventions.

"If a separate vote has not been requested on any of the rules contained in the consolidated text, there will be two votes: first, a general vote on the regulatory proposal excluding the two-thirds quorum rules, and secondly, the vote in general rule of the rules qualified as a two-thirds quorum, "the document adds. Third, if a separate vote on any of the rules contained in the consolidated text has not been requested, 3 votes will be taken, starting with the norms that have been considered to be defined separately. "If it is approved to separate the norm from the list, the precept will be excluded from it and will be incorporated as a simple quorum norm. If the separation is rejected, the norm will be definitively included in the list of two-thirds norms, "he warns. Then, the text continues," the general vote on the regulatory proposal will take place, excluding the two-thirds quorum norms. . Finally, the rules qualified as a two-thirds quorum will be put to a vote in general. "" Remember that, regardless of the result of the voting, the rules that do not reach the approval quorum in general can always be replaced by indications and be considered in the particular discussion, with the respective quorum, "they stressed.