After the former president Michelle Bachelet appeared in a video supporting the Contra optionin which he accuses the loss of rights for womenthe former metropolitan mayor and Minister of Social Development of the Government of Sebastián Piñera (2018-2022), Karla Rubilar, reacted to the publication and stated that «I regret that the former president ends her political days lying to women.»
Through a video on his personal X account, Rubilar stated that «the current Constitution, the one that President Bachelet is calling to maintain with her vote Against, names us only once. She is calling for us to maintain a Constitution that does not consider us. «This Constitution defends and maintains the right for us to have, obviously, abortion on three grounds, but also equal pay, it guarantees the right to care.»
«This constitutional text has the face of a woman. It hurts us enormously that President Bachelet unfortunately ends her political days in this way. Why does he become someone who, unfortunately, lies to women?» expressed in the publication.
Here I respond to the #FakesNews of the ExPdta Bachelet and I regret that he ends his political days lying to women. pic.twitter.com/coYWSahheX
— Karla Rubilar Barahona (@KarlaEnAccion) December 8, 2023
In the commented En Contra video, the former president affirms that the constitutional proposal «endangers (abortion) on three grounds and those who wrote it know it.»
In addition, the two-time head of state explained that conscientious objection, freedom of education, the absence of the principle of equal pay and the end of contributions They are points of the constitutional text that would directly harm the rights achieved by women.
«HE IS NOT IN HIS LAST DAYS, HE IS IN HIS BEST DAYS»
The command spokesperson Chile Against and mayor of Peñalolén, Carolina Leitao, responded to Rubilar’s statements about Bachelet’s retirement and maintained that the former president «it’s in the beginningbecause when people mature, when they reach a certain state of leadership, they are the most influential and relevant people, because they can look with perspective at the present, also at the past, and look at the future. So be careful with that, don’t get lost. «He’s clearly not in his last days, he’s in his best days.»
«Everyone here has said it, jurists have said it, they have said it in all tones, that this is at risk. By putting norms of different types, of different kinds, in different chapters of the Constitution, «In which the three causes are put at risk, the issue of progress in women’s rights is put at risk.»Leitao added during a breakfast with neighbors in Quinta Normal.
It is expected that Bachelet’s commented video also appear on the television slot from today until December 14, which is the date stipulated for the end of the campaign period – facing the constitutional exit plebiscite -.