Chilean constituents take office to begin the drafting of a new magna carta

The 51 members of the Constitutional Council responsible for drafting a new proposal for a magna carta in Chili to replace the current one, inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), began to take office this Wednesday in a solemn ceremony in which the president participated Gabriel Boric.

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“This Advice It is installed today because we have achieved, traveling a long way, that the agreements prevail and, in addition, it demonstrates our strength as a country because we are capable of putting the common good above the particular interests”indicated the president.

This is the second attempt to Chili in three years to write a fundamental lawafter 62% of citizens rejected a proposal in a referendum last September refoundational constitutionalelaborated by a convention of majority of lefts.

“Citizens expect a process of collaborationwhere the different parties are able to give in when necessary and find common ground in search of the best for Chili”pointed out Boric, who concluded his speech by assuring that the country “will do well to close this cycle.”

The composition of the new body is completely different from the previous one, with the extreme right occupying 23 of the 51 seats, which gives him the power to veto constitutional norms.

The ruling party only got 16 seats in the elections a month ago and the traditional right of Chile Let’s go achieved 11 directors.

The last seat is for a mapuche activist elected in the quota reserved for indigenous peoples, while the center-left parties that governed during the transition to democracy were left out of the body.

“Let’s fight for the agreement, let’s fight for the peace of the nation. Otherwise, history will not forgive those who get carried away by passions and revenge of the past “said Miguel Litinthe first counselor to assume office and who will preside over the body during this first session until a board of directors is elected.

The councilors will have 5 months to prepare a new proposal that will be put to the vote on December 17 and they will work on a preliminary draft written by a group of experts appointed by the Congresswhich includes a dozen basic principles to avoid a refoundational proposalas the social and democratic state of law.

The big question lies in whether the ultra-right, which defends the neoliberal model Installed during the regime and has the power of veto in the Council, he will respect those bases or join with the traditional right to change them from the roots.

Own Boric assured Sunday on the channel Chilevision that he “would approve” the text as it is.

The two constituent processes, that of 2022 and the current one, arose after the social outbreak of 2019, the largest protests since the end of the dictatorshipwith about thirty deaths and thousands injured.

Source: Elcomercio

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