The constitutionalist lawyer pointed out that there is a section of the population concerned that he sees signs of a Constitution made from and for the Presidency.
Constitutionalist lawyer Francisco Bertrand Galindo pointed out that the procedure for reforming the Constitution carried out by the team of Vice President Félix Ulloa is not the right one because the design of the constitutional reform is not to be done by the Executive, but from the village.
This is what he said this Monday in the morning interview with Ernesto López on channel 21 where he explained how the people could do them.
“If it is possible, but it is not very right, because the design of the constitutional reform is not to be done from the Executive, this is done to be from the people and from the people the motions are understood, the ideas that they can go out in the congress that are the direct representatives of the town “, has indicated.
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In this sense, he explained that this is why the reform initiative is not in the Presidency of the Republic. “The president has initiatives to reform laws, but not the Constitution, this is the responsibility of deputies,” he said.
He also clarified that the fact that a commission has been set up since the presidency and from there has been worked on from a draft reform of the Constitution itself is not illegal, but is a procedure that is not as expected.
“It’s not what’s been designed for reform, it’s also not designed to be presented to the president to be the one to decide which of those reforms happened and which ones didn’t in Congress,” he said.
The constitutionalist noted that this is what has a section of the population specifically of legal content concerned because “here what they see is a sign of a Constitution made from and for the presidency.”
“That is, there are 200 or so reforms, but the ones that have to do with the structure of the state are much less and are perhaps the most relevant and there are things that are really quite worrying,” he opined.
He cited some things he sees as worrying and exemplified the one-party ban.
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“The current Constitution prohibits that there is a single party, given the situation that we have a party that has two-thirds of the Assembly and are a very strong party, with popularity, there would be the possibility that there is no other party participating in an election, “he said.
He also said that the reform proposal is presented with a very fine wording and not direct so it will give space to interpretation. He exemplified that, on the subject of euthanasia, same-sex unions, abortion, the wording is not explicit, but is made to be interpreted and so almost the rest of Ulloa’s proposal.
He also considered that if you want to ratify the Constitutional reform through a plebiscite it would be a mistake, because there are too many changes for the population to answer yes or no, and that there will be things that people will agree with and others that no.
Vice President Ulloa previously announced that, in the constitutional proposals worked out by his team, the presidential term is extended to 6 years, as well as the second-degree election positions.
Faced with this the lawyer considered “I don’t think an extension of the presidential term to six years is bad, but in the event of a re-election being approved it would be 12 years for a president and that could be too much”.
“I think that, if we have to look at it carefully and especially review the extent to which we are changing to a more presidentialist regime, more inclined to be able to have a non-totalitarian regime, but more presidentialist than what we have now, that is, he can do more things without congressional control or he can do more things without court control, ”he concluded.
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