The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, affirmed this Friday that in the event that the proposal for a new Constitution is rejected in the ratification plebiscite on September 4, there must be another process.
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To win the rejection, “there must be a new constituent process,” including an election of conventionals, he said in an interview with the morning program of local television Chilevisión.
The option “Rejection” of the proposal for a new Constitution, prepared for a year by 154 conventional elected on a parity basis in a popular election and delivered to President Boric on July 4, leads the opinion polls.
The latest survey by the private Cadem, published last Monday, shows that 54% would lean towards “Rejection”, 35% for “Approve” and 12% still “don’t know or don’t answer”.
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The elaboration of a new Magna Carta, which replaces the one that remains as a legacy of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), 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.
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What is going to happen is that we are going to have to prolong this process for another year and a half.
“If the ‘Rejection’ alternative wins, what will happen is that we will have to prolong this process for another year and a half, where everything will have to be discussed again from scratch,” added the Chilean president, whose government is prohibited from establishing a position in the face of the plebiscite, which will be a compulsory vote.
“That is the path that Chile decided to take when it voted on October 25 in a plebiscite for a new Constitution that is drawn up by a 100% elected body for that purpose,” he added.
The constituent process agreed upon by the political forces -except for the Communist Party- establishes that if the new constitutional proposal is rejected, the Pinochet Constitution should remain in force.
“There is a transversal agreement today that the Constitution we have now does not represent a social agreement in Chile,” said Boric.
AFP
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