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By just over ten points, Chileans rejected the draft Constitution prepared by the extreme right, a year after another project, this one with a majority from the left, also received a majority vote against . They were two extreme projects that did not achieve the consensus of society. The one voted on this Sunday was even more conservative than the current Constitution, from 1980, drawn up during the Pinochet dictatorship. The result puts an end to the military's attempts to bury the Constitution, after a process that lasted four years and that began with the wave of protests in 2019.
The great loser in this plebiscite is the extreme right and its top leader, José Antonio Kast , whose leadership has suffered a severe blow. His Republican Party, with an absolute majority in the Constitutional Council and in alliance Phone Number Database with the traditional right, wanted to make a Magna Carta modeled on its political program. And he did not accept the text that had been prepared by a Commission of Experts, which had achieved broad support, from the Communist Party on the left, to Kast's own Republican Party. The Republicans made more than 400 alterations to the text presented by the experts and the result was a project in the image and likeness of the Kast group, to the point that the president of the Socialist Party, Paulina Vodanovic, called the council's proposal “Kastization.
When the new constituent process was proposed, it was expected to have learned the lesson left by the previous process, in 2022, when the population said no to another project that had no chance of generating consensus and being everyone's home as expected. of a Constitution. “We hope that the new proposal will satisfy the majority of Chileans, not the majority of the Republican Party,” Kast himself had told the newspaper La Tercera before beginning to discuss the new Constitution. But it soon became clear that that was not the spirit. His co-religionist Luis Silva stated in an interview: “When they talk to us now about the need to reach agreements. Why do we , being the majority, have to reach agreements with the minority? That they earn it, here is their problem, not ours.”
The great loser in this plebiscite is the extreme right and its top leader, José Antonio Kast , whose leadership has suffered a severe blow. His Republican Party, with an absolute majority in the Constitutional Council and in alliance Phone Number Database with the traditional right, wanted to make a Magna Carta modeled on its political program. And he did not accept the text that had been prepared by a Commission of Experts, which had achieved broad support, from the Communist Party on the left, to Kast's own Republican Party. The Republicans made more than 400 alterations to the text presented by the experts and the result was a project in the image and likeness of the Kast group, to the point that the president of the Socialist Party, Paulina Vodanovic, called the council's proposal “Kastization.
When the new constituent process was proposed, it was expected to have learned the lesson left by the previous process, in 2022, when the population said no to another project that had no chance of generating consensus and being everyone's home as expected. of a Constitution. “We hope that the new proposal will satisfy the majority of Chileans, not the majority of the Republican Party,” Kast himself had told the newspaper La Tercera before beginning to discuss the new Constitution. But it soon became clear that that was not the spirit. His co-religionist Luis Silva stated in an interview: “When they talk to us now about the need to reach agreements. Why do we , being the majority, have to reach agreements with the minority? That they earn it, here is their problem, not ours.”