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Congress prepares to send political system reform to a vote this month

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Chile’s Congress expects to advance a political system reform bill in September after the joint committee reached a unanimous agreement.
  • The proposal, introduced in 2023 by Gabriel Boric’s previous government, had remained stalled since the beginning of the year.
  • Senate President Paulina Núñez said lawmakers had given the bill priority so it could move forward in the joint committee.

Chile’s Congress is preparing to move a long-stalled political system reform bill forward this month, after lawmakers reached a unanimous agreement to resolve differences between the two chambers.

The proposal has been stuck in the legislative process since early this year. The previous government of Gabriel Boric introduced it in 2023, and the bill was reactivated after the agreement in the joint committee, as Segpres Minister José García Ruminot had indicated.

Senate President Paulina Núñez described the agreement as a decision taken by the legislators together with the Segpres minister. “It was a decision we made as co-legislators, both with the Segpres minister and me. We gave this project urgency so that it could reach the joint committee, I convened the joint committee, and that is how an understanding was reached in this instance,” she said.

Núñez said the bill would be placed on the agenda after the regional week, noting that the schedule for the current week had already been set. The measure would amend Chile’s Constitutional Organic Law on Political Parties.

It was a decision we made as co-legislators, both with the Segpres minister and me. We gave this project urgency so that it could reach the joint committee, I convened the joint committee, and that is how an understanding was reached in this instance.

· Paulina NúñezChile’s Senate president described how lawmakers and the Segpres minister reached an agreement to move the reform bill forward.
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