The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, considered this Sunday that the victory of the rejection in the plebiscite that Chile held to vote on the text of the new Constitution supposes a return of the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, from whom the current constitutional norm is heir.
“Pinochet revived,” Petro considered through a message on his Twitter account. Twitter in which he cited that, with 48% of the votes counted in Chile, the rejection of the new Constitution was imposed.
In a subsequent tweet, Petro added that “only if the democratic and social forces unite, it will be possible to leave behind a past that stains all of Latin America and open the democratic malls,” in a reference to the emblematic phrase of former Chilean President Salvador Allende , overthrown by Pinochet’s coup.
Chileans were summoned this Sunday to a mandatory plebiscite to decide whether to approve the new Constitution or, on the contrary, reject it and maintain the one written in 1980, under the Pinochet dictatorship.
With 72.2% of the votes counted, Chile rejected this Sunday by an overwhelming 62.2% of the votes the proposal for a new Constitution and decided to maintain the current text.
Pinochet revived. https://t.co/zixLipcXsU
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) September 4, 2022
