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Chile, the left wins the constituent elections. Piñera: “We are not in tune with society”

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SAN PAOLO – The night that began the process for the construction of a new Chile is also the one that marks the definite political sunset of the conservative president Sebastian Piñera. “It is clear – said Piñera – that we are not in tune with the demands of society”. It is not a big surprise, considering that for a year and a half there have been protests against the executive and the current economic model, but the results of yesterday’s mega election day, it was voted to choose the representatives of the Assembly Constituent but also for the new figure of regional governors and for mayors – they mark a profound defeat for the right now in government. With 37 seats won out of 155, the Conservatives are in fact far from the target of a third of the representatives that would have served to exercise a veto power on the articles of the new Carta Magna, which must be approved with a two-thirds majority. Instead, the new left triumphs, from the Communist Party to the progressive formations born on the wave of student powers and the variegated “Estallido” movement, the social protest whose main slogan was to change the current Constitution, inherited from the dictatorship by Pinochet.

The “Apruebo dignidad” list brings home 28 representatives, three more than the coalition formed by the center-left parties (Christian Democrats, Socialists and Social Democrats) that have ruled in Chile for most of the time since the return of democracy to today. The Communist Party also did very well in local elections, which managed to keep its mayors and win new ones, arriving in front of conservative candidates even in symbolic municipalities such as that of the capital Santiago. Great exploit, as expected, of independent candidates; there will be 48 out of 155 in addition to the 17 representatives assigned by law to the original peoples, from the Mapuche to the Quechua to the Rapa Nui of Easter Island. Among these, the largest group is the one registered in the “Lista del pueblo”, openly left-wing but without a common platform. The Constituent Assembly, which will begin its work at the end of June and will have 12 months to complete them, will therefore have a very varied composition, certainly of a progressive nature, even if it will be on the individual articles under discussion that the direction towards the which will go the new constitutional text. Certainly the Chilean political scene marks the biggest change in 31 years of newfound democracy. There are many new names, different representatives of regional bodies or specific questions of civil society, such as the defense of water as a public good, the creation of a strong welfare state, gender equality and the fight against discrimination against the community. LGBT.

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A political earthquake, however, arrived with an even lower participation than expected; only 43% of Chileans voted, a surprising figure if we consider the importance of a vote destined, however you look at it, to change the history of Chile. The next election is around the corner, in November we vote for choose the president. The names of the candidates will be decisive in the coming weeks by the respective parties and even here there may be surprises.

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