In addition, the text of 388 articles and 178 pages can also be purchased at $3.8 and leads the ranking of the most sold non-fiction books. According to the Lom publishing house, which printed it, some 75,000 copies have already been sold.
Three weeks before the plebiscite, the Rejection option leads the polls against the Approval of a new Constitution, a draft that buries the ultraliberal model imposed under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and that allowed education, health and pensions to be governed by the laws of the market.
The new text, drawn up for a year by a joint Convention with indigenous representation, made up of 154 elected people, seeks to implement a State that guarantees social rightsas demanded by citizens in the 2019 protests.
“There is a lot of ‘fake news,’ but with the booklet now that they have just given me I am going to make sure more,” Guillermo Figueroa, a 55-year-old farmer, told AFP while leafing through the text in the Plaza de la Constitución, in front of to the presidential palace of La Moneda, in the heart of Santiago.
The new Chilean Constitution and disinformation
The campaign for “Vote Informed” is promoted by the Boric government, which is favorable to the change in model proposed by the new Constitution, after months in which misinformation has proliferated about the contents of the project on issues as sensitive as the right to own housing, the interruption of pregnancy or the independence from the Central Bank.
“I reject with hope”, say posters at the exit of a subway, while in another square a graffiti invites the “Burial of Pinocchio on September 4”alluding to the text approved under the Pinochet dictatorship.
The commands of both options have spaces on open television to make propaganda and convince the 15 million voters. In the last week this space in prime time has summoned an average of 40 audience points, a very high mark, comparable to the final chapter of a popular soap opera.
According to figures from the Electoral Service (Servel) this Friday, the financial contributions for both campaigns are very unequal: the Rejection option has received 76% of those funds, against 24% for the Approval.
This week some 40 prestigious economists and political scientists from around the world joined in praising the draft of the new Constitution. Taken together, we believe that the new Constitution creates a legal structure that will succeed in preparing Chile for a new century of equitable growth, with prospects of attracting investment, protecting financial stability and promoting development for all Chileans. these researchers in a joint letter.
Among the signatories are economists such as the Italian Mariana Mazzucato, the Indian Jayati Ghosh, the French Thomas Piketty and the American James K. Galbraith.
“I don’t know if the Approval will win, I highly doubt it, and here there are many issues that are difficult to understand, but whatever option comes out, hopefully the street will calm down and let’s all row for the good of Chile,” he told AFP Griselda Peña, a 46-year-old bank teller, who asked for four copies of the bill to be voted on. “I want everyone in the house to read it,” said.
Source: Ambito
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