UC Rector , U de Chile dean visit Valparaíso

Both authorities reached the council room of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valparaíso, where they met with the rector of the UV, Osvaldo Corrales; the general secretary, Nicole Selamé; the internal comptroller, Cristián Moyano; the vice-rector for Links with the Environment, Carlos Lara; the director of Extension and Communications, Osvaldo Bizama, and the deans and vice-deans of each faculty.

After the meeting, Ignacio Sánchez and Alejandra Mizala visited the Integral Center for Student Attention (CIAE), a building in which the University of Valparaíso will host public hearings on Friday, June 30 and Saturday, July 1. These hearings are one of the four mechanisms for citizen participation, together with the popular initiatives for norms, the convened and self-convened dialogues and the citizen web consultation, in which you can take part until July 7.

“Citizen participation is very important, because it is an extraordinarily relevant pillar to give the Constitutional Council the voice of the citizenry. We have guidelines from the experts, we have the proposal of the Expert Commission and we have the work of the Constitutional Council. Now that job will take the inputs it receives. Summaries of citizen participation are extraordinarily important, which is why we have established the mechanisms for convened and self-convened dialogues, citizen consultations, public hearing requests, and also popular standard initiatives, so that with these four mechanisms the Constitutional Council can receive this systematization and can deliver to the public, through the analysis of this proposal, a better text,

“Citizen participation is very important, because it is an extraordinarily relevant pillar to give the Constitutional Council the voice of the citizenry”- Ignacio Sánchez, UC rector

Alejandra Mizala, dean of the University of Chile, stated that “universities have a great responsibility, we have had the confidence of society to organize this process of citizen participation, but also a great responsibility for this process to be successful and all people they feel that the process belongs to them. It is not easy, because we have already seen that there is a decrease in participation, but indeed, the weeks that we have left, all the universities are doing our best. We are working forty universities in the country, throughout Chile, to collect the voices of all, so that people feel that they have been able to participate and that their voice is present in this new constitution.”

“We are working forty universities in the country, throughout all of Chile, to collect the voices of everyone, so that people feel that they have been able to participate and that their voice is present in this new constitution”- Alejandra Mizala, dean of the University of Chile

The rector Osvaldo Corrales, meanwhile, explained that “the idea of ​​this visit, as well as other activities that are being carried out, is to promote participation mechanisms so that citizens can effectively use them and can assert their opinion. We have a commitment from the current Constitutional Council that these opinions will be taken into account, those that are most relevant, that are repeated more in the discussion and deliberation process that this council is carrying out and that in some way will seek to give final form to the proposal for a new constitutional text that will be submitted to a plebiscite towards the end of the year”.

“We have a commitment from the current Constitutional Council that these opinions are going to be taken into account, those that are most relevant, that are repeated more in the discussion and deliberation process that this council is carrying out and that in some way will seek to shape end to the proposal for a new constitutional text that will be submitted to a plebiscite towards the end of the year”- Osvaldo Corrales, rector of the University of Valparaíso

Corrales added that “we invite everyone to join this participation process, to assert their voice. We need to solve the constitutional question and we need this to be done based on the most pluralist idea, positions and points of view so that the constitutional text effectively represents each and every citizen of our country”.