“The concurrence of right-wing and center-right senators is needed to carry out the project,” he said, showing his hope that it will go ahead “shortly,” according to the Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
The President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, assured on Tuesday that a possible pardon for those detained in the framework of the social outbreak “does not do good” to the country, while the Senate debates the bill presented.
According to official figures from the Chilean Gendarmerie, there are 211 people deprived of liberty for various reasons related to the social outbreak, of which 67 have already been convicted and 144 are in preventive detention awaiting trial.
On October 18, 2019, the people of Chile took to the streets en masse to protest the rise in the price of public transport, initiating mobilizations that remained constant for several months and that channeled the discontent of society due to the overwhelming inequality.
The demands escalated rapidly and one of the main ones was the drafting of a new Constitution, to replace the current one that dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which is being worked on after the majority support shown by Chilean society in a national plebiscite held in October 2020.
The role of the security forces, especially of Carabinieri, was widely denounced both outside and inside Chile. The National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) has registered more than 2,500 complaints and some 3,000 victims of abuse between October 2019 and March 2020, including thirty deaths.
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