The new text, from 388 articles and elaborated during a year by a Constitutional Convention, consecrated a “Social State of rights”, in response to claims expressed in the massive demonstrations of October 2019.
The items that more divisions caused by the project was to have consecrated the indigenous plurinationality and having included abortion in its new catalog of social rights, the right to “decent” housing in a text with a marked environmental emphasis that nevertheless maintained the market economy model.
all surveys had anticipated the triumph of the “Rejection” but none with such ease.
“It’s a disaster, I’m super sad. I can’t believe this. We’ve been through a lot of things on the street to end up like this,” María José Pérez, 33, a frustrated “Apruebo” supporter told AFP in Plaza Italia, where hundreds They came together to share their frustration.
National unity
The pChilean resident, Gabriel Boric, had assured hours ago that whatever the result, he would call for “national unity” in an exercise with “more democracy” to overcome social fractures, voting to applause in his hometown of Punta Arenas.
The Former president Michelle Bachelet, very popular in the country, said that if the “rejection” option wins, as the polls anticipate, “the demands of the Chilean people are not going to be satisfied” and a new constituent process should be called. The former president voted in Geneva, Switzerland, where she has just left her position as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The campaign closing acts on Thursday in the capital of this country of almost 20 million inhabitants, They gave two photos that contrast with the forecasts.
the fThis “Apruebo” street party had gathered between 250,000 and 500,000 peopleaccording to the organizers, while the closing act of the “Rejection” consisted of an event of just no more than 400 people.
The sociologist Marta Lagos had anticipated that the photo of Santiago, where in the end the “Rejection” also won, it did not mean that the “Approve” won because “it has a great disadvantage in the south and in the north of the country”, areas that suffer violence and insecurity, adds Lagos.
while in in the south there are conflicts over land claimed by Mapuche indigenous groups, In the north there is an incessant influx of undocumented immigrants who live on the streets and which has generated the appearance of mafias of human traffickers.
