“The Expanded Table, with the aim of deliberating in a better way and due to the fatigue shown by the constituents, has decided to suspend the session,” said the president of the convention, the Mapuche academic Elisa Loncon, after four in the morning this Wednesday.
Cristina Dorador, a biologist from the University of Chile and a doctorate in microbiology from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Kiel in Germany, was the one who came closest – he reached 72 of the 78 votes needed – to replacing Loncon.
The convention has nine months – extendable only once for another three – to draft a new Constitution to replace the current one, inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
The text must be validated in a mandatory voting plebiscite to which the government of the president-elect, the leftist, must summon. Gabriel Boric, who will assume the presidency on March 11.
The 155 constituents were elected on a double election day on May 15 and 16 of last year, on an equal basis and with the inclusion of 17 seats reserved for native peoples.
The drafting of the new Constitution emerged as an institutional solution to the social protests that originated throughout Chile since October 18, 2019, which indicated the current Magna Carta as the source of inequality in the country.
The Constitution of Chile was drawn up in 1980 under the Pinochet dictatorship and established a neoliberal economic model, which, while guaranteeing the economic and social development of the country for more than three decades, deepened the differences between rich and poor.
Source From: Ambito
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