“They have no foothold”: Jackson dismisses criticism of opposition about Boric’s “little disregard” before plebiscite

This Sunday, the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency (Segpres), Giorgio Jackson, addressed criticism from the opposition that, in their opinion, the President Gabriel Boric “He has put aside his activities to campaign” in the face of the exit plebiscite, adding that there would be “little disregard” by the President.

In that sense, Jackson was blunt in stating in Chilevisión News that “It seems to me that they have no handle because the disregard that it has an opinion in the Comptroller’s Office refers to not occupying resources and not even working time to demonstrate for a specific option and the government has fully complied with it, “he said.

Meanwhile, regarding that there would be “interventionism” by the government towards an option, specifically on the Approval, the head of the Segpres ruled it out once more: “When the President in the role of delivering the text of the new Constitution is so that people can say I Approve or Reject and when they ask the President for a signature, he will never refuse, not doing so would be very contrary to the personality of the President”.

“It strikes me that they claimed from the opposition that before the plebiscite we were not governing and now they tell us that they interpret it as a campaign for Approval, when we have never expressed a position. All people will know that we are more inclined to one option, but we do not show that when we are a government authority, because we must represent everyone, “he emphasized.

While, on July 20, Boric, through his Twitter account, shared a publication by deputy Diego Ibañez (CS), corresponding to a meme of the singer Chayanne where they called to vote Approve in the plebiscite of September 4. “How to convince your family to vote Approve?”said the headline.

The story was deleted moments later and regarding it, Jackson assured that “It was assumed to be a mistake by someone on the team. Community Manager who uploaded a photo and immediately downloaded it, it took 10 minutes”.

Lastly, the Secretary of State referred to the complaint filed by the Republican Party once morest him and the Minister of Segegob, Camila Vallejowithin the framework of the prescindence that must be respected in the face of the plebiscite and request the creation of a “special unit” to investigate a possible electoral intervention by the government of the President Boric.

Thus, he pointed out that if the former presidential candidate, José Antonio Kast “he is afraid that we will deliver the new Constitution, one would think that the people who are with the Rejection would like us to deliver it, both the Approval and Rejection people should be distributing the text of the new Constitution”, he placed.