The urgency for a Constituent Assembly

It has become clear that the Constitution cannot remain as it is: 82.6% of those surveyed by GAD3 consider that changes are urgently needed, either by convening a Constituent Assembly to draft a completely new one or simply by modifying specific issues of the current one – from 1972 -, an exercise that has already been done in the past five times, the last in 2004. This urgency to reform the institutional architecture of the country has been understood by groups of the population (civic, union, political), who are now preparing to seek the necessary signatures. It seems that this country was only united by football and the red tide, but it seems that also the urgency to change the Magna Carta. The Electoral Tribunal – from its supervisory position – would do well to facilitate the process and face the responsibility that this entails. The entity calculated that it requires, at least, $50 million to finance the process that originates a Parallel Constituent Assembly. This should be seen as a country investment, not as an expense. Much more is disbursed in electoral subsidies to parties that function as the branch of a supermarket or as a cockpit for live gambling, patronage, and corruption – LA PRENSA May 21.