Chilean ex-president Bachelet calls on constitutional advisers to “live up to it”

The former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010 and 2014-2018) called this Thursday the councilors elected in constituent elections to “to live up to what the country needs and expects” during the elaboration process the new fundamental charter proposal of Chili.

“That the Constitution that comes out can strengthen and deepen democracy, can guarantee freedoms and rights for all. If it doesn’t work out, well, then we’ll see what we do, but let’s try today to encourage that to happen”, urged the former high commissioner of Human rights of the UN.

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Bachelet defined herself as a “strategic optimist“waiting to see the result of the work of the Constitutional Council which, with 22 of the 51 seats, was totally controlled by the far-right Republican Partysupporter of maintaining the Magna Carta current and the neoliberal model established in the dictatorship (1973-1990).

“It is to be hoped that the magna carta that they draw up will allow women to have the same level of participation and presence in society as men.”, added the former president during her participation in a meeting organized by the Government on the “mainstreaming of the gender approach in municipal management”.

During the process of negotiating the pacts for the constituent elections, Bachelet offered to lead a single list that would bring together all of the ruling party with the aim of competing against the three rights: the traditional coalition Chile Let’s goand the emerging ones represented by the extreme right and the populist right of the People’s Party.

However, his proposal did not prosper and the government coalition participated in the elections divided into two lists. The list made up of broad front of the president gabriel boriche communist party and the Socialist Party it came in second with 16 councillors, while the traditional center-left was left out of the body.

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Third place went to the right-wing Chile Vamos coalition, with 11 councillors, and the last seat was won by a Mapuche activist in the seat reserved for indigenous peoples. He People’s Party he couldn’t get in either.

With this distribution of forces, if the extreme right and the traditional right join forces, they will be able to modify without counterweights the preliminary draft prepared by the experts, which will then have to be submitted to a plebiscite in December.

Source: Elcomercio

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