Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Monday (5) that he lacked “firm leadership” for the approval of a new constitution in Chile, after regretting that the proposal supported by the government of Gabriel Boric was rejected with 62% of votes in the referendum held on Sunday.
“It lacked a firm, clear and credible leadership, with popular support, to assume the leadership of the constitutional text. In the end, the Constitution of the dictatorship of (Augusto) Pinochet remained in force”, said the representative in a meeting with the board of the ruling party. PSUV, which was broadcast by the state channel VTV.
Maduro said the proposed new constitution “had its wings clipped by the old Congress” that supported former president Sebastián Piñera and, as a result, there was never an “original, sovereign and plenipotentiary process.”
“They filled it with limitations and, in the end, convened a Constituent Assembly. What a pain for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, for the memory of the martyrs, the disappeared, the tortured”, he declared.
The Venezuelan president also criticized the fact that the process was not “original”, but “mediatized”, which, according to him, “tied” the proposed change.
“All Latin Americans and Caribbeans who love Chile, who love the example of the martyred president Salvador Allende, will all be attentive. What happened in Chile is truly painful”, he added, while lamenting this “defeat of the historic project” and expressing solidarity “to the people of Chile”.
An overwhelming majority rejected the new Constitution proposed in Chile on Sunday, with almost 62% of the votes, a result that maintains for now the current text, drafted in 1980 by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and partially reformed throughout democracy. .
The option of approving the new text, which declares Chile a social state governed by law and was defined as the most feminist and one of the most avant-garde in the world in terms of gender equality and nature protection, received only 38% of support, with more than 95% of the votes counted.
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