The terrible prophecy has come true. This Chilean far right He emerges as the big winner in the parliamentary elections of 50 people. it will prepare the new Constitutional Charter by obtaining 36% of the votes and holding the 22 members of this body. “The first day of a better future for our country is today (…) Chili pepper defeated a failed governmentmust be said loudly and clearly,” he said. Chile let’s go and the populist People’s Party received about 62% of the vote. That’s the same amount they stopped the constitutional project drafted by a parity congress at the popular consultation last September 4. Unity for Chile and All for Chiletwo coalitions supporting the president gabriel boric They got the same percentage as “I Approve” Magna Carta eight months ago: 38%.
In this way, Chile, dizzyingly, and in less than a year, went to create the political conditions for the future Constitution to have strong conservative pressure, tossing aside a constitutional text with strong gender and environmental content. HE social epidemic October 2019 opened the door to break free from the institutional matrix inherited from the last military dictatorship (1973-90). This attempt has been aborted, and after the results of this Sunday, the recently unthinkable can happen: the Constitution, written in Pinochet’s image and likeness, can be replaced by a Constitution bearing Pinochet’s stamp. The Pinochetist Caste confessed. The left needed 21 to use its veto power.
Boric’s reaction
“I want to invite the Republican Party to office. not to make the mistake we did thenBoric said after learning of the outcome, and indeed referring to the left’s decision to marginalize his opponents in the drafting of the text that was accepted at the last Convention, which will finally be discarded. “When soon the pendulum of history swings from one extreme to the other Those who are constantly suffering are always the most vulnerable.” According to him, the previous founding process “failed because we didn’t know how to listen to one another among those who thought differently.” He suggested that history cannot be repeated.
The President urged to continue in this sense consensus path “To resolve their differences because across the political spectrum we have all understood that democracy is always defended and strengthened by more democracy and never by less,” he said. His speech sought to extend a hand of compromise that Kast’s followers were not inclined to accept. He said to them and to the other expressions of the right: “Once again we have the opportunity to build with dialogue and I’m finding a new Magna Carta this best represents the aspirations and type of country we want to live in as Chileans.” The cast said it is time not only to divide the country, but to work together for the good of Chile, including the left.
voter’s anger
The new Magna Carta must be approved at the polls in December. This horizon seems distant and much more so in a country where ideas change so much.
Hugo Herrera, a political analyst at Diego Portales University, reminded that Republicans are no longer u in this regard.a “fringe” party being the top voter in the country and “this will be the source of uncertainty, depending on whether the founding process will move forward or be blocked.”
The government knew in advance that the ballot boxes would not bring good news. Spokesperson Camila Vallejo rejected the idea that the election of councilors should be viewed as a referendum on Boric’s rule, which has a national popularity of 30%. Vallejo responded to Francisco Chahuán, head of the right-wing National Renewal, in addition to prophesying a “severe punishment” for the ruling party that exceeded the appointment of constitutional advisers. The disenchantment goes beyond Boric’s authority. It is generally against politics. About 20 percent of Chileans canceled their vote. “All die”, “I don’t know”, “socialist thieves”, “Death to the state”, “Bastards”, “We don’t deserve this protected democracy“, some wording remained to object to the vote.