Piñera is criticized for the failures of the constituent process | In Chile, the session of the Constitutional Convention was suspended for the second time

On the other hand, there are the technical shortcomings that include everything from internet access to room ventilation, in the midst of an emergency due to the Delta variant of covid-19 in the country, which has kept the 155 constituents from be able to work normally in the offices of the former National Congress and the Pereira Palace in the heart of Santiago.

Even President Sebastián Piñera himself, as confirmed by government sources, asked the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Juan José Ossa, to “resolve” this situation as soon as possible.

An interrupted convention

After the tense day on Sunday, with demonstrations in front of the former Congress which forced the postponement of the elections of its officials – the Mapuche scholar Loncón and the constitutionalist Bassa – The difficulties show the inability of the government, whose most visible face is with Ossa that of the executive secretary of the convention Francisco Encina, to organize this meeting which caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the participants.

In fact, Encina (unlike Ossa) has already offered her position, which would be accepted by Piñera imminently. But the priority is that tomorrow it is already functioning normally.

“Today we would have to redo a session, if yesterday we could not do our second session it is because there are no technical or sanitary conditions, so we just went to check our offices and check the truth. ‘is that we do not even have computers to be able to communicate with the conventional ones ”, underlined Loncón during a press point this morning, insisting on the fact that there had been no major changes in these. facilities.

“The main thing is political”

It is important as Loncon pointed out the government’s unwillingness, almost as if he wanted the constituent process not to go smoothly, with failing databases, platforms and lack of an official communication channel. of the leading table. Something that could have been expected given that the deal for a new constitution was ratified in a plebiscite nine months ago. “The explanations were not satisfactory because they allude to technical reasons, but here there is a fundamental question which is political,” he said.

Bassa apologized to the rest of the voters. “Strange as it may sound, we still don’t have that channel of communication because the commitments made by the government have not been kept.”

Como medida de emergencia, the U de Chile ofreció sus dependencias para llevar a cabo estas reuniones, mientras que el gobierno a través del subsecretario de la Secretaría General de la Presidencia, Máximo Pávez ha asegurado that “para el gobierno también es important que funcione todo good”.