The president of Chile, the leftist Gabriel Boric, appealed this Thursday to fight against misinformation about the content of the draft of the new Constitutionwhich will be submitted to a plebiscite on September 4.
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“It is important that people know the text, that they can compare with what is today and the proposal, if they want a change or prefer to continue with the current Constitution,” said the president.
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Let’s not allow lies to prevail. Here we have heard many times things that have nothing to do with reality.
During the presentation of the government’s audiovisual campaign for an “informed vote”, Boric encouraged citizens to read the proposal for a new Constitution elaborated during 12 months by the Constitutional Convention as an alternative to the current one, inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
“We have the conviction and the duty that all Chilean men and women on September 4 vote in conscience, vote informed,” said the president, who stressed that “both voting alternatives, ‘approval’ and ‘rejection’, They are legitimate.”
With the campaign underway for September 4, misinformation about the new Magna Carta floods social networks.
Statements such as that the new constitutional text will allow abortions up to nine months, that the Carabineros (militarized police) will not use firearms or that the houses will become state property are speeches disclosed by users on social networks that have been verified by AFP Factual and considered false facts.
According to the latest survey by the private company Cadem, published this Monday, 52% favor the “rejection” option of the new Constitution; 40% for approval and 8% do not position themselves. In the plebiscite, more than 15 million people are authorized to vote.
Voting is mandatory. The elaboration of a new Magna Carta was the institutional solution with which Chile channeled the strong protests that broke out as of October 18, 2019.
A year later, it was approved in a plebiscite, by 78.6% of the votes, to draft a new Constitution by a Constitutional Convention elected entirely by popular vote.
AFP
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