In a new program on La Semana Política, deputies Jorge Guzmán (Evópoli) and Juan Santana (PS) addressed the breakdown of the administrative agreement in the Senate, and the election of José García Ruminot (RN) as president of the Corporation. Episode that also aligned Democrats with the rest of the opposition parties, rearranging the scenario for future negotiations.
“What we see with good eyes is that there is a construction of a much stronger political center. Where Democrats feel more identified with the proposals, with the ideas, with the ways of governing that Chile Vamos presents today, and therefore this new political conglomerate is aligning itself. I think that is very important and I would read it as a good agreement in favor of Chile,” said Guzmán.
For his part, the socialist deputy, Juan Santana, described what happened in the vote as “regrettable.” “Not because we are in the process of building a new political majority on the right, because that is part of the democratic and political game, but rather because it ends up violating an agreement reached by the political forces, in an institution where also in the Lately there has been this image of being the space to reach agreements that seem tremendously difficult.”
Regarding how the negotiations are projected in the Chamber, the Evópoli parliamentarian warned that the opposition has not signed any administrative agreement, which is why he expressed his rejection of the idea of any parliamentarian from the Communist Party coming to the front.
“When you start to see the history of the Communist Party’s voting in the latest projects, one begins to have many doubts as to whether they really have the will to move forward. We have a legitimate suspicion about whether the PC’s control of the table will have the same will, the same energy to advance the projects that we believe are priorities. Therefore, we are clear that we are not going to subscribe to an agreement so that the PC is the one that leads the table, and we are going to make the necessary efforts in this democratic process to be able to achieve majority conviction regarding another idea regarding to the legitimate leadership of the House table,” said Guzmán.
On the other hand, Deputy Santana warned that “no one could guarantee that (the administrative agreement) will be fulfilled because the atomization in the Chamber of Deputies is even greater than in the Senate.”
“The correlation of forces between senators is fairly clear. In the case of the Chamber, I think it is more dispersed because there is a center bloc that in many discussions is much more ambiguous, I am referring particularly to the PDG. In this vote, if the same thing happens as in the Senate, and Democrats sign an agreement with the opposition, four PDG parliamentarians will finally be the deciders to tilt a majority to one side or the other. But what seems unpresentable to me is this permanent veto towards the Communist Party. (…) They have the legitimate right to be part of an understanding between political forces,” he noted.