The result is a setback for the far-right Republican Party, which had fundamental weight in drafting the new text. This proposal proposed to tighten the treatment of irregular migration and opened the door for revision of the abortion law.
Chileans rejected a proposal for a new constitution promoted by the right and far right in elections for the second time in just over a year. Chile thus concludes a long and complex constitutional process that began four years ago, after the largest wave of protests in that country’s democracy, and concludes the Magna Carta, which it inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), to maintain and repeatedly reform. .
With more than 99.65% of votes counted, 55.76% of voters have rejected a text with a conservative seal drawn up by a body led by the far right and traditional right, compared to 44.24% who opted for it to approve the text.
The option to reject the text, which tightened the treatment of irregular migration and opened the door to a revision of the abortion law, has been imposed in most of the country’s sixteen regions, especially in the capital Valparaíso (center) and the northern Atacama. and Antofagasta, where the difference was almost 20 points.
The result, predicted by all polls, represents a setback for the far-right Republican Party, which had a fundamental weight in drafting the new text and aimed to become the hegemonic force of the right.
The president of the Republican Party, the far-right José Antonio Kast, has acknowledged his party’s defeat in the plebiscite and said that “politics remains indebted to the Chilean people” for failing to draft a constitutional proposal . of consensus.
Source: EITB
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