[Politics] Former President Bachelet sends a message for constitutional negotiation: "Let's leave the discussions sterile"

[FNX Magokiler]

After the intervention of the former president, in the commemoration of Human Rights Day, the current Head of State spoke, coinciding with her.

Former President Michelle Bachelet sent a message on Monday in the midst of the inability of the political parties to reach an agreement that allows the opening of a new constituent process, warning that in the face of this challenge there is no room to fall into irresponsibility or the struggles of egos.

During her participation in the commemoration of International Human Rights Day at the La Moneda Cultural Center, in an activity headed by President Gabriel Boric, the former head of state took advantage of that instance to send a message of unity around the need to reach agreements on this matter. "We live in times of worrying fragmentation. Faced with this, there is no room for irresponsibility.

Basic agreements are your best antidote. Because what is essential is what clarifies the reunion between democrats," said the High Commissioner for Human Rights until recently.

of the United Nations. In her opinion, given the current situation, political leaders must act "soberly. With generosity.

 

 

Unity is built around fundamental purposes. Let us leave sterile discussions and stridency in their place: the irrelevance of the struggles of egos".

Boric supports Subsequently, it was Boric's turn, who commented that "by the way, it is an honor for me to speak after the former President, and I thank her for her tremendous generosity with me, sharing her experience, her learning and her tremendous experience not only in the position that I inhabit today, but also in that long fight for the defense of human rights that she and so many others have carried out".

Having said that, the president took up Bachelet's words, emphasizing at the beginning of his speech that "a phrase that he says in his speech remains marked for me, the irrelevance of egos has no place. That irrelevance of egos, I invite all of us to let us question it if we are at any point contributing to it". "I hope that this does not prevail when it is time to reach important agreements," he mentioned, in line with the series of efforts that he has led in recent weeks to support the talks that are taking place in the National Congress, with a view to closing as much as possible. before an eventual constitutional itinerary.

 

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