The Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, who has defended the self-determination of peoples and respect for sovereignty, criticized the fact that an overwhelming majority of Chileans have rejected a proposal for a new Constitution for their country
Nicolás Maduro said he felt “pain” for the rejection of the new Constitution project in Chile, and attributed the defeat to the lack of leadership of President Gabriel Boric. “Truly painful what happened in Chile”, he expressed in broadcast by VTV this Monday, after the Rejection was imposed on Sunday with 62% of the votes in the plebiscite.
“In the end, the constitution of the dictatorship of (Augusto) Pinochet remained in force. What a pain for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean! What a pain for the memory of the martyrs, the disappeared, the tortured!” said the president without acknowledging the 60 constitutional modifications made to the text in force since 1981 in Chile, all occurred in the democratic era.
Maduro analyzed the constitutional process in Chile with those that occurred in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, where he highlighted the leadership that Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa and Evo Morales had, respectively. In this sense, he questioned what he considered to be the lack of leadership of President Boric in his country. “There was a lack of firm, clear, and credible leadership that was at the forefront of the constituent process,” he maintained.
Another of the causes that he attributed to the defeat in the plebiscite were the restrictions that -he assures- the Constitutional Convention had.
“The Chilean process had its wings cut from the old congress of (Sebastián) Piñera. They handcuffed him. They filled it with limitations. In Chile they mediated the original constituent power”, he stated.
“The people will recover and sooner rather than later, as the great Salvador Allende said, that people will once again walk the great malls towards a true constituent, original, plenipotentiary and sovereign popular process,” he emphasized.
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