The draft constitution establishes the idea of a solidarity. Controversy and inaudible communication participate in the discredit of the Assembly.
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These are for the moment nearly 80 pages that weave the contents of the new Chilean fundamental law since July 2021. After three months devoted to string, the constituent assembly – fruit of a Referendum, in May 2020, approving 78% the idea of rewriting the Constitution – continues to floor on the merits of articles. The text must replace the one that had been approved in full dictatorship (1973-1990) and which devoted the principle of a state behind the private sector.
The request for a new constitutional nomenclature had become one of the main requirements of the street during the history movement against the inequalities of 2019. A requirement of social justice which has also expressed with the election, In November 2021, from Left President Gabriel Boric, arrived in power on March 11th. So deputy, he himself had promoted the drafting of a new text in November 2019, in order to soothe the ardor of the protesters.
“Chile is a social and democratic state and law. It is plurnotal, intercultural and ecological”: This article gives the “the” text, written by an assembly that leans largely on the left. It serious in the marble the notion of a solidarity State, formally recognizing the existence of the indigenous populations, to which 17 seats are reserved. The “right to social security” but also to “a dignified and adequate housing” has been approved, while articles on other pillars of the life of citizens, such as education or pensions, must still be studied.
“We clearly see a social democratic framework, with the concept of parity that runs through it entirely”, notices Juan Pablo Rodriguez, sociologist at the center of conflict studies and social cohesion. Article-flagship of elected officials Promoting the rights of women, the legalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy has joined the draft of the text. “In general, the approved articles are the most open, which gives way to political interpretation, continues the academic. It can be said that if the current constitution is neoliberal and the heiress of the dictatorship, this one is the baby of the social revolt of 2019. “
unfavorable poll
However, the divorce between public opinion and the assembly has never been shiving. Reversing the dynamics of the referendum of 2020 which had approved massively the writing of a new text, a survey has just given, in early April, and for the first time a majority in favor of a rejection of the new fundamental law: according to the ‘Cadem Institute, 46% of respondents would vote against this text during the referendum scheduled for September 4, and 40% for.
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