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The Chilean President, gabriel boricasked this Sunday, May 7, the far-right Republican Party “to act with wisdom and temperance” after his overwhelming victory in the constituent elections.
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On national chain The president also urged “not to make the same mistakes” as the left during the first constitutional process, that failed last September when 62% of Chileans rejected the first Magna Carta proposal.
“The previous process, we must say, failed because we did not know how to listen to each other among those who thought differently. I want to invite the Republican Party now not to make the same mistake that we did”, indicated the ruler.
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With 95% of the tables scrutinized, the PR reaches 22 seats, followed by the Chile Seguro list with 11, and 17 by the official Unity for Chile list; One piece of data that will be analyzed in the coming days is the rise in invalid votes, which reached more than 2 million in total.
With these results, the far-right Republican Party, in favor of maintaining the current Chilean Constitution, obtained at least the 20 councilors necessary to have veto power in the constitutional body.
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The 50 directors -25 men and 25 women- will take office on June 7 and they will have five months to draft the text proposal, which will be submitted to a plebiscite on December 17.
The same day of installation, The councilors will receive a draft that 24 experts appointed by Parliament have been drafting since March and that it complies with 12 basic principles agreed a priori by the parties to avoid a refoundational proposal like the previous one.
Source: Elcomercio
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