The rejection of the new constitution was strictly enforced in Chile. With 99.98% of the tables counted, the rejection of the proposed text submitted to a public referendum won 61.87% of the vote. Approval got 38.13%.
President Gabriel Borek acknowledged in a televised message that “the Chilean people were not satisfied with the proposed constitution and therefore decided to clearly reject it in the elections.” He said the president announced changes in the government and called on all political forces to agree on new deadlines to address.
Over 13 million people voted in a weekend of Great Call. 15.1 million Chileans were called to vote in the referendum in which he won by a large margin. The president had called all parties to a meeting on Monday to analyze “the continuity of the foundational process.”
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Chile categorically rejects the new constitution
With 7.8 million votes, No was the most voted electoral option in Chilean history, an accurate record through mandatory voting and automatic registration for the first time. 85% of Chileans left their homes on Sunday to vote. The referendum opens a new phase, with Government obligated to keep the constitutional process alive But they are too weak to impose their ideas and even the roadmap.
read over here Election Day Chronicle, by Federico Rivas Molina and Rossio Montes
Thirty years stubbornness
“Gabriel Borek will have to adjust his policy of alliances and look to the center-left if he wants to implement the constitutional amendment that the country expects,” wrote the analyst and president of the Diego Portales University. Carlos Pena. “The division of Chilean politics is no longer tied to social structure, but rather fluctuates and changes according to circumstances.”
Read his analysis of the poll results on this link.
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales: We salute the democratic call of the Chilean people who peacefully participated in the constitutional referendum. Not all component operations are easy. The struggle of peoples for inclusion, solidarity and dignity will continue as long as injustice and inequality persist.
Lessons for a fresh start
“Today represents a new political moment in a long process,” says the political scientist glory source. “If before the noise of Chile was to restore and expand democracy, today a related desire has been added, namely, the need to build a system in which no one is left at a disadvantage.”
Read his full review in this link.
Former Colombian President, Ivan Duque: “Common sense triumphed over ideological assumptions that would tear apart forever a society that had made important social and economic achievements”
Gabriel Borek is committed to promoting a new foundational process.
The Chilean president announced on Sunday that he will promote, with Congress and social forces, a new process of constitutional reform. In an intervention on public television, he confirmed that he had summoned the congressional leaders and civil society representatives on Monday in La Moneda to move forward on the new path.
“When we act in unity it is when we get the best of ourselves,” he said. “I promise to do everything on my part to build a new itinerary with Congress and civil society.”
Gustav Petro President of Colombia, he was the only South American president to publicly respond to the referendum result. He did so surprisingly, when not even the Chilean president, Gabriel Borek, spoke in public. “Pinochet’s revival“Only if democratic and social forces are united will it be possible to leave a past that pollutes all of Latin America and open up democratic processes,” Petro wrote on Twitter, and later clarified.
In only two tweets he named and mentioned them Two ghosts from Chile’s past, the dictator Pinochet who ruled from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and Salvador Allende, the socialist president who suffered from Pinochet’s coup and committed suicide at the presidential residence. read over here History of Bogotá by Juan Diego Quesada.
Rejection triumphed in all regions of the country.
The district of Noblet, in the center of the country, received 74.2% of the vote against the constitutional reform proposal and was the area with the greatest difference. La Araucanía followed with 73.70% against him. But As rejection has won the great fortress of contentmentSuch as urban areas and large cities. In the capital, 55.28% of respondents were rejected, compared to 44.72% who approved, and the result was narrower regionally. The same happened in popular municipalities, such as La Pintana, where 53.57% voted no and 46.43% agreed. In areas like Nnywa, consent was enforced, albeit slightly: 50.41% versus 49.59% refused. Rossio Montes reports.
Borek announced the change of government amid his speech after the victory of rejecting the constitutional proposal:Meeting these important challenges requires rapid adjustments in our government teams, To face this new period with renewed vigor.
The rejection of the new constitution was imposed in huge numbers. More people voted against the project this weekend than all who voted for the Constituent Group in May 2021 to elect the Congress responsible for drafting a proposed constitution.
In 99.4% of survey tables, The rejection was imposed by 61.88% and more than 7.8 million votesFor 38.12% approval, she garnered 4.8 million votes. Nearly 6.18 million people voted in the 2021 elections
Borek: “I promise to do everything on my part, to build a new path for the foundational components with Congress and civil society.” “I take this message and make it mine, we must listen to the voice of the people”
boric: “We are not starting from scratch. There are many conventions we have today. We know that there are grievances, abuse and inequality. We cannot deny them. We know that the women of our country will not stop being champions. We know that we must respect each other in our contradictions.” “.
Borek: “First thing tomorrow morning I will meet with the presidents of both houses and other authorities to move forward As quickly as possible process the new component. Regardless of legitimate disagreements, I know that the desire for dialogue and meeting prevails.”
President Gabriel Borich: “Today the Chilean people spoke and gave us two messages:
“In Chile, institutions are working. Democracy appears more powerful, that’s how the whole world saw. A country that chooses dialogue in its most difficult moments. We must be very proud of this country, citizens. I want to be recognized on this long road of decades.” “The second message is that He was not satisfied with the proposed constitution presented by the conference. This requires institutions that act with greater respect and more dialogue until we come up with a proposal that unites us as a country.”
Kast throws his arrows at Boric: “The victory of the refusal is an abject failure of President Gabriel Borek and his entire government. President Borek, this defeat is also his defeat.” “Winter in Chile is not over, it has just begun.”
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