almost three years ago,Chilean social boom It was tried to be summed up with an immediately understandable slogan: “Not 30 pesos, 30 yearsThe rise in the price of the subway ticket was the spark of a fire that the political elite could not understand or measure. Millions of people took to the streets and were hanged by the presidency of the right-wing Sebastián Piñera. The administration was half-recovered when a constitutional amendment was agreed that could remove the institutional foundations inherited from the last General’s dictatorship. Augusto Pinochet (1973-90) and paving the way for a social and democratic state of law. Almost 80% of Chileans approved the drafting of the new Magna Carta in 2020.
This Sunday, society must decide by voting whether to approve the 499-point draft text from a powerful progressive court that is drafting a joint Convention with Indigenous seats. The latest Cadem-Plaza Pública survey, “Refusal” It will be imposed on the new Constitution with nine articles. The possibility of reversing this outcome would mean a significant increase in electoral turnout. Inside Hot pepper Usually 50% of the electoral votes. Pulso Ciudadano consulting calculated that this time it will rise between 74.7% and 79.5%. About 15% of undecideds can also influence the fate of “Confirmation”. The government of the young president Gabriel Boric is already preparing for a negative scenario, but at the same time it does not exclude a miracle.
More or less intensely, the forces sympathetic to the “explosion” and drafting the text of the constitution face an interesting paradox: the Right had no veto power in Parliament, but used it through the media and social networks. The point that erodes the sympathy for the Constitution. Pulse Citizen only 27.9% of respondents read the offer in its entirety 49.1% admitted that they only read some articles, while the remaining 23% admitted that they did not.
empire’fake news’
This has been the context that has allowed it to proliferate in an unprecedented way. fake news On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and WhatsApp. Only one Chile with domestic courts is free abortion up to the same nine months of pregnancy, abolition of private property and exceptional rights for newly arrived immigrants. “Red campaign, to instill fearsaid Pierina Ferretti of the Nodo XXI Foundation. “said the writer Raphael Gumucio. to the author my grandma It went unnoticed that the 2019 pandemic was the product of the same social networks that set the tone for the current debate.
Latest version of the campaign
It’s not just those with Pinochet nostalgia, they’ll be campaigning in favor of “Red” until Thursday. Sectors of the center are also mobilized to prevent the victory of the other option. these forces they are only united by fear they do not share a roadmap to the plebiscite constitution after 4 September. Meanwhile, supporters of “Apruebo” are spreading to the cities. Their actions are massive and festive, but their campaign suffered an unexpected setback in the final episode. a group of transvestitesDuring a performance in the port city of Valparaíso, known as “Las Indetectables”, she pulled a Chilean flag from her butt to simulate an abortion. Karol Cariola, deputy and spokesperson for the Confirm Chile command, had to reject the action. “Very sad“The act of proselytizing is tarnished by the action of three people,” he said, who appeared on the scene in a “completely offensive and unwarranted” manner.
symbolic history
“It’s impossible not to look back other September 4, 1970, when Chile also defined a radical turn. About 52 years have passed and the traces of the day Salvador Allende Mónica González, one of the country’s biggest journalists, said winning the first majority in the presidential election is still a secret. As declassified archives in the United States show, 32 years after the coup d’état, González said, “with minimal regulation in the economic fields, health and education, inequality is built. Until the pressure cooker explodes on October 18, 2019. However, the effects of this explosion do not seem to be enough to guarantee the victory of “I approve”. This uncertainty will bring about 15 million people to the polls in the sky. .