Post by account_disabled on Feb 17, 2024 22:20:19 GMT -5
A little over a year and a month ago, this same analysis space was titled: “Chile continues to be a moderate country . ” On that occasion, an overwhelming majority pulverized a project for a new constitutional refoundation drafted by the most leftist sectors of the country. Today, nearly thirteen million Chileans have voted again. This time by a project written mainly by the Republican Party, which was installed on the extreme right of the entire existing political spectrum and led a conservative regression after that result. And the Chileans, who remain moderate, responded loud and clear: neither does this text. Today in Chile no one in the political class can celebrate.
This cannot be done by the traditional right, thoughtlessly Europe Mobile Number List given over to the most conservative sectors, nor by the government and the left, who were forced to call to vote against and defend, indirectly, the validity of Pinochet'sConstitution, the that they tried so hard to change. A text that, by the way, has been indirectly validated twice in the two electoral processes with the largest vote in the history of Chile. On the other side of the mountain range, boredom won. Four years after the “Social Outbreak”, the country has not made progress in any of the reported problems . The constitutional discussion took over the agenda, while the educational, health and – above all – public security crisis became increasingly palpable for millions of Chileans. In these years, little progress was made on social matters in Congress and the Constitution became a kind of chimera.
While, at the same time, citizens expressed time and again a preference for the policy of broad agreements that would solve the country's emergencies. The counting of votes from the constitutional plebiscite, in Santiago (Chile). Photo EFE There was, in the middle, a moment of hope. This second process had a commission of experts, nominated by the parties, which functioned as the first “Chamber” of this bicameral process. That initial text, known as “the experts' draft” did achieve agreements . Already then, from President Gabriel Boric to the most possible standard-bearer of the traditional right in the next presidential elections, Evelyn Matthei, they expressed their support for the agreed text.