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More than 15 million Chileans voted this Sunday to ratify or not a new constitutional proposal to replace the Magna Carta in force since the dictatorship and after rejecting in a first radically opposed and progressive initiative. With just over 96 percent of the votes counted, the "against" party won with 55.6% to 44.3%. Javier Macaya, leader of the Independent Democratic Union, was the first representative of the right to recognize that Chile will not have a new constitution and asked the government to “be coherent” and not raise the constitutional question again. “There is a clear trend regarding the option against and obviously from the UDI, as we have always done, from a perspective of coherence and respect for democracy, we recognize this result,” stated the political leader.
The spokesperson for the “Against” position, Carolina Europe Mobile Number List Leitao, also spoke out before the scrutiny concluded and stated that the result is a great shock for politics. “We want more agreements and fewer disputes,” she said about the pronouncement through citizen ballots. He assured that Chileans want all politicians to unite and work for an agenda that prioritizes the issues that concern citizens, to have a more supportive and safe country. The new text, written by a majority of right-wing and far-right voters, is more conservative than the one it aims to replace both morally and economically, since it would deepen free market principles, reduce State intervention and could limit some rights, such as the reproductive.
The vote occurred in the midst of general boredom among citizens and a year after Chileans rejected another project with 62% of the votes, then drafted by a constituent majority with a left-wing majority, which many described as one of the initiatives most progressive constitutional institutions in the world. A voter in the city of Concepción, Chile. Reuters photo That is why it was paradoxical that it was the left and the ruling party that promoted keeping the Constitution in force. bequeathed by Augusto Pinochet which has been renovated up to 70 times. “I prefer something bad to something terrible,” said former President Michelle Bachelet, who campaigned for the “Contra” and the defense of women's rights. On the other hand, former president Sebastián Piñera, the conservative in whose government the social outbreak of occurred that caused the beginning of the constitutional process.