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This September 4, Chileans are called to the polls to approve or reject the text of the new Magna Carta that was drafted by a Constituent Convention, parity, with a majority of the left and that would introduce new rights for Chileans. The pulse, for the moment, gives the “Rejection” of the text as the winner.
The latest polls published on Friday, before the electoral silence began, indicate that two weeks before the referendum in Chile, which seeks to approve the text of the new Constitution, 47% of voters would reject the document. Only 37% of voters would vote to approve it, according to data from the UDD Citizen Panel pollster.
Some 15 million Chileans are called to the polls this September 4. In Santiago, demonstrations for and against have taken to the streets. One of the participants for the Approval affirms that Chile will experience “a historic moment,” since they have “the possibility of leaving behind the Constitution of the tyrant, the Constitution of Pinochet.”
The Magna Carta was drafted by the Constitutional Convention for a year. In it, 154 members sought to change the one inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, for one that recognizes abortion, LGBTIQ+ rights, indigenous rights, environmental rights and the right to historical memory, among others.
On Saturday, south of Santiago, a group of women supported rejecting the Constitution, since for them it does not represent all Chileans. The right-wing Carol Bown, a former member of the Constitutional Convention, said that “if the Rejection wins as we think it will happen, those who are going to carry out a new constitutional reform have to finally agree, this draft constitution is bad” .
President Gabriel Boric affirmed that he is going to “play for a Chile that is united by a new Constitution, whether it wins Approval or Rejection.” In addition, he said he agreed to promote a new constitutional process if the text is rejected or rejected. reform the most controversial articles if it wins Approval.
Misinformation on social networks fuels the fire of uncertainty and the numbers that put the “Rejection” winning in the referendum.
Those who would vote for the “Rejection” would be the right and some part of the center left, since they qualify the new Magna Carta as “radical”. For its part, the left, which was the majority in the Constituent Assembly, is looking for the “Approbation” to come out, although it has promised to reach a great pact to reform the most controversial aspects.
Carolina Tohá, one of the main representatives in favor of approving the new Constitution, in an interview for the newspaper ‘La Tercera’ said that “the path that comes forward has to pick up the defeated on the night of September 4”, whatever the meaning of the Chilean vote.
The far-right party of former presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was the only one to say that it is not willing to modify the 1982 Constitution, an extreme to which other political formations have been favorable in the event that, as it appears according to the polls, the Rejection option is majority in just two weeks.
With EFE and AFP
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