[Politics] Second constitutional project enters the final stretch: plenary votes end this week

[FNX Magokiler]

The expert commission will begin working on observations on the text after voting ends on Wednesday and the first draft of the new Constitution is written. The modifications proposed by said collegiate body must be approved by the Constitutional Council and this requires the 22 votes that the Republican Party has. By the way, there remains a third instance: the mixed commission, in which the situation is the same.

This October 4th, the voting of the plenary session of the Constitutional Council ends, after which there will be a first proposal for a new Constitution, which will have a marked conservative inclination, due to the absolute majority of the Republican Party (22 councilors) and Chile Vamos (11). , absolute majority in a council made up of 50 people.

Despite this, both benches highlight that there were a large number of regulations that were approved unanimously, although most of them are repeated from the preliminary draft, which is why the official sectors point out that, in reality, with said speech they are masking the deep differences that have existed. Despite this, there is still a path of constitutional debate and this does not end with the votes of the plenary session of the drafting body.

On Saturday, the expert commission that prepared the preliminary draft will formally receive the first draft of the new Constitution, so that in just five days it will propose observations that "may consist of adding, modifying or deleting articles or their parts."

 

 

However, any change that this suggests, points out a commissioner, must necessarily be approved by the Republican Party in the Constitutional Council. That is why commissioners from the right and left hope to integrate representatives of that party into the negotiations, in addition to the expert Carlos Frontaura, who is already part of it. “The agreements are going to be broad, even broader than the parties within this process,” says a Republican advisor, alluding to the Yellows and Democrats, who are going to be informally integrated into these conversations.

However, there is a third instance: the mixed commission, which will once again study the improvements proposed by the expert commission that have not achieved the approval of the councilors or that have been subject to the veto of the Republican Party. This body, made up of six experts and six advisors, will also be majority right-wing and, as in the previous case, its proposals also require the approval of the Constitutional Council and, therefore, of the Republican Party.

In other words, no improvement proposal from either the Expert Commission or the mixed commission will enter the final text without the approval of José Antonio Kast's party, given the veto power it possesses.

 

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