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In Chile, the ruling parties reached an agreement after the promise of President Gabriel Boric to open the door to improvements for the draft Constitution that Chileans must approve or reject in less than a month. A pact that its promoters hope will have an effect on voting intentions, which the polls give for now in favor of rejection.
“United and united to approve a new Constitution”, is the title of the agreement proposed by the Chilean ruling party to calm those who fear that the changes introduced in the draft of the new Constitution of Chile are too radical.
Less than a month before the plebiscite in which Chileans must decide between the current Magna Carta -inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990)- or the new one drawn up by a convention focused on enlarging social rights, the rejection of the text which began to be drafted in 2021, continues to lead at 53%.
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The leaders of the great coalitions that make up the Government, Approve Dignity and Democratic Socialism, decided to announce a commitment to improve the text after the referendum.
The president of the Party for Democracy and one of the promoters of this agreement, Natalia Piergentili, points out that the campaign has been plagued by disinformation by a sector of the opposition and clarifies that in no case “this agreement is a corrector or invalidates the work that the Constituent Convention did, but rather what it does is allow to dispel doubts and fears that have generated some articles that were left very open”.
The first point that the agreement clarifies is the issue of plurinationality, that is, the full recognition of the identity and representation of the original peoples.
“In the campaign of the right, of the opposition, it began to be pointed out that, for example, if there were crimes of social connotation, the people of the indigenous peoples were going to be judged with a softer hand or with another justice system,” says Piergentili. and clarifies that in criminal and civil matters, everyone, without any distinction, “will be tried like any other citizen.”
Other issues have caused debate and that is why the pact clarifies that the right to housing will be protected as well as that of property. In addition, subsidized private education will be guaranteed.
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