In four months, the Convention was able to draft the regulations and its work advances in the middle of the electoral campaign for the general elections, in which seven candidates fight to be the new president of Chile and the new president will be partially renewed. Congress.
The polls, questioned because of their methodology, ranked the far-right candidate as favorites Joseph Antonio closet and his left rival Gabriel Boric, followed by Sebastián Sichel right and Yasna Provoked Christian Democrat.
Anyone who wins among the seven candidates will be in charge of calling a plebiscite with a mandatory vote to reject or approve the new text.
The new president “will have the main function of installing the future institutional framework that is born from the new Constitution, if it is approved,” Axel Callis, analyst and director of TuInfluyes.com, told AFP.
Drafted in the midst of the dictatorship (1973-1990), the Pinochet Constitution is pointed out as the origin of the inequalities in Chile against which a large part of society rebelled.
“Profoundly proud of the constituent process,” Gabriel Boric, the left-wing deputy and presidential candidate, acknowledged feeling in an interview with AFP, who at 35 is the youngest in the history of Chile.
Boric, who signed the historic agreement on November 15, 2019 to call for a reform of the Constitution, hopes that the new Magna Carta will end the concentration of power that the presidential system that prevails in Chile has generated.
If he is the next president, he said, he hopes to end his term “with less power than when he started.”
“It is a discussion that the constituents should have, but in the transition period the person who is in office should not benefit from decisions that are long (term),” he said.
Along the same lines, the senator and Christian Democratic candidate (center) Yasna Provoste supports the Convention “with great enthusiasm” and supports the idea of a semi-presidential regime.
José Antonio Kast, who campaigned for the “rejection” of the drafting of a new Constitution, has been in favor of keeping the Magna Carta in force since the dictatorship.
“Kast is at the other extreme. He is someone who voted ‘rejection’, who does not believe in this process and who is going to put all possible obstacles to this constituent process,” Javier Cousso, a constitutional lawyer and academic at the National Assembly, told AFP. Diego Portales University.
However, Kast softened his position in recent weeks and in a press conference with international correspondents assured that he will respect the popular will.
Sebastián Sichel, candidate of the ruling center-right and former minister of the current government of Sebastian Pinera, supported the agreement to draft a new Constitution, although this year he was more critical of some decisions of the constituents. According to Cousso, it is a more “distant and indifferent” stance, which he compares with that of Piñera.
Under a climate of expectation, almost 15 million Chileans are called to vote this Sunday, without a clear favorite and a high possibility of being settled in a second round.
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