Whereas the 2020 vote on whether to hold a convention was voluntary, voters were required to show up for the plebiscite. Boric, 36, met the rejection by 61.8 percent of voters with "humility," he said, while adding there was "latent discontent" against deep-rooted social inequality in the country. President Gabriel Boric vowed Monday to press ahead with efforts to replace Chile's dictatorship-era constitution, hours after voters rejected a first draft in a setback to his leftist reform agenda. People who rejected the new constitution draft protest against the government of Chilean President Gabriel Boric a day after voters rejected the draft in a referendum, in front of La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago, on September 5, 2022. Indeed, the constitution fared particularly badly in the communities with the highest concentrations of indigenous people, and encountered heavy opposition in the municipalities with the lowest incomes. But the jumble of measures-abolishing HMOs, eliminating school vouchers, a Bolivian-style "plurinational" structure in place of equality for all before the law, and a general degradation of protection for individual rights-embedded in the proposed constitution led to defeat. Given that only one in six Chileans enjoy what Americans would recognize as a middle-class income, while the typical Chilean draws 60 percent of her ancestry from that country's pre-Colombian first nations, this might have been a winning combination. There were also reserved seats for certified members of indigenous communities. While the Right has held its own in Congress, the constitutional convention was dominated by amateur politicians, most of whom leaned leftward. This inequality is exacerbated by the large fraction of Chileans who now grow up in single-parent homes, where the prospect of sharing in Chile's economic bonanza seems remote. The spectacular growth rates that economic liberalization brought to Chile in the 1990s have faded from the public's memory, while high levels of inequality and crime have generated widespread discontent. The constitutional debate has left Chileans badly divided. He then proceeded to implement the treaty anyway. Santos put his peace agreement with the violent insurgent group FARC to a plebiscite, which it lost. It was too much for the public.Īs the streets filled Sunday night with gleeful opponents of the proposed constitution waving flags and honking horns, President Gabriel Boric, who has made replacement of the current constitution the main goal of his administration, lost no time in giving a public speech in which he promised to call a new convention-to write another constitution! This tone-deaf reaction is reminiscent of the position Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos took back in 2016. The result was a document loaded with ambiguities and self-contradictions.
While the convention included a few familiar faces from established political parties, it was dominated by amateur politicians with little skill at the give-and-take of retail politics. Two years ago the same public voted overwhelmingly to hold a constitutional convention, and the document they decided Sunday to shred was written by delegates elected in a wave of discontent with the status quo. Chileans went to the polls Sunday to reject, by a margin of more than 20 percentage points, a proposed new constitution.
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