After the opening of President Gabriel Boric to reform the political system, Congress is exploring the possibility of resuming initiatives already entered both in the Lower House and in the Senate.
Parliament is proposing things such as deepening the anti-unrest rule, preventing there from being deputies with less than a certain percentage of votes, reducing the number of parliamentarians, avoiding fractionalization and atomization, making compliance with committee agreements mandatory to vote one way or another, among others.
The president of the Senate, José García Ruminot (RN), reiterated that the proposals that generate the greatest consensus «are three: that the political party to which the parliamentarian who is winning the seat belongs must have 5% in the general elections of deputies; the second is that The parliamentarian who is elected by a political party, if he resigns from that party, loses his seat parliamentary».
«And the third thing,» he continued, «is give powers, attributions, to the Servelin such a way that it can have greater protection of parliamentary discipline».
For his part, the minister of the Segpres, Alvaro Elizaldepointed out what would be the most appropriate basis from which to build an agreement, from the Government’s perspective, to modify the political system.
«The agreement signed within the framework of the work of the Expert Commission -of the second constituent process- It is a good starting basis for a reform agreement of the political system,» declared the Secretary of State.
The former parliamentarian also stated that «It is essential to generate disincentives to atomization. «Today what we see is dispersion, division, many political projects that are personal in nature, that do not respond to the views of the country, to long-term visions regarding the type of society we want to build.»
«The specific approaches will be the result of the dialogue that will be carried out with the different political forces,» he added.
It is worth remembering that the preliminary draft of the Expert Commission indicated that there would be no lists of independents in the elections, that only the parties that reach at least 5% of the votes in the elections of deputies will have the right to join the Chamber, or the that reach at least four elected parliamentarians.
It also allowed deputies or senators resign from their positions for health reasons and that the parliamentarian who resigns from the political party that had declared his candidacy would be stripped of his position.
Finally, from the Christian Democracy (DC), its helmsman, the deputy Alberto Undurragaannounced that «our constitutional team has made a proposal that is about eliminate electoral pacts at the time of the election. This forces the parties to compete on their own without allying with others before the election and with this the smaller parties will tend to merge with others. We believe that it is the best way to have a system with fewer parties and that finally allows the agreements to be finalized in Congress.»