Two days after the official plebiscite result constituent, the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, replaced a third of his cabinet of ministers. According to analysts, this is just the first step on the road to achieving a new Constitution for Chile.
borik he swore in the new incumbents on Tuesday of the portfolios of the Interior and Public Security, General Secretariat of the Presidency, Social Development and Family, Health, Energy, Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation.
The Ministry of the Interior and Public Security and the Secretariat of the Presidency, which are now led by Carolina Tohá Morales and Ana Lía Uriarte Rodríguez, are considered key in the Executive’s relations with other State functions and with a view to generating greater governance to Boric for the remainder of his term.
“It is perhaps, I think I have no reason to hide it, one of the most difficult political moments that I have had to face,” Boric said when announcing the changes.
According to experts consulted by the voice of americathe changes are only the first step of what within Chile is beginning to be called “the second half” for a new constituent route, which will depend largely on the agreements reached by the ruler in the coming days with representatives of other organizations policies.
In legal matters, the Chilean constitutionalist Javier Couso, consulted by the VOAexplained that Chile returns to “zero pages”, although he clarified that there is already citizen knowledge about the issues debated in recent months by the Constituent Convention.
Although that could be an option, there are those who consider that it could also be the Chilean Congress that leads changes to the Constitution in force since 1980, that it be done by a kind of “meeting of notables” or that, even, things remain as before, without any change.
Faced with the range of options, Couso was in favor of calling a new convention, although he said that it will be necessary for its work to be more agile and its integration less numerous.
“The National Congress must approve a reform to the current Constitution, which enables or authorizes the realization of a new constitutional process. This, of course, has to be preceded by a political agreement between all the parties that have representation”, clarified Couso, who accredits a Doctorate in Jurisprudence and Public Policy from the University of Berkeley.
Political analyst Michelle Hafemann agreed with the need to reach early agreements, but said that for this it will be necessary for the government and its president to be in the center of the political spectrum.
“It is going to have to make some concessions towards the sectors that are still reluctant to continue the process or that are setting some conditions for continuity,” emphasized the political scientist.
Dayana León, a Cuban electoral analyst and university professor residing in Ecuador, explained that Sunday’s result should be viewed regionally from three perspectives: from politics and all that it entails, in relation to the constitutional text as such, and in terms of the problems that were evidenced in the communication strategy around the constituent process.
“Yes, it would be important for them to be able to look at Chile’s experience in dealing with these three aspects and to what extent any of the questions raised in the (next) popular consultation could generate uncertainty or not,” said the academic, at a time when that the government of Ecuador is analyzing the possibility of asking the country in the coming months about important issues such as security, institutions and the economy.
More than 13 million Chileans participated in this Sunday’s plebiscite. After the day ended, it was confirmed that 62% of the voters voted for the “rejection” of the draft Constitution while 38% were in favor.
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