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The recent delivery of the new Constitution proposal, after it was approved in the Constitutional Council, more than a possibility for a fair and supportive Chile, is rather a nightmare for those of us who saw in this new process an opportunity to have a new Magna Carta. that left behind the legacy of the three previous constitutions, which were written by and for an elite in the country.
Hence, if one reviews the new constitutional proposal, it is a more neoliberal text even than the current Constitution and directed at a small privileged group in Chile, which uses the idea of freedom to deepen inequalities of all kinds, thus denying the possibility of building a new social pact and coexistence in the most democratic and plural country, which takes care of the accumulated unrest, which led to the revolt of 2019.
Consequently, the new constitutional proposal maintains an exclusive society model, through the privatization of our rights, which can be seen in the commercialization of health, social security, education, water, housing, as well as a open denial to workers, people with disabilities, girls, boys and adolescents, indigenous peoples and women.
In other words, the Social and Democratic State of Law was completely emptied of its content, transforming it into a paper and decorative entity, without any capacity to guarantee basic rights and recognition to certain groups that have historically been excluded and mistreated by the most vulnerable sectors. well-off of the country.
In the case of the gender issue, it is clearly an anti-women constitutional proposal, since it endangers the three-cause abortion law, puts the daddy heart law and the respective pension payment at risk, and does not recognize domestic work and of care, which is a clear setback for the majority of society, which is left extremely unprotected.
Furthermore, it is a constitutional proposal against the communes and against the regions of Chile, since it completely defunds the poorest municipalities and perpetuates the historical and Portalian centralism of the country, destroying the most direct relationship that citizens have with the public.
Given what was said above, we are in the presence of a constitutional proposal, which, unlike last year's, puts at risk basic minimums that we thought were also going to be in this new proposal. But the Republican Party transformed the constitutional discussion into a presidential dispute, which only attempts to discredit the government of Gabriel Boric, in order to position José Antonio Kast as a candidate for the year 2025.
On the contrary, last year's first constitutional proposal may have had certain inaccuracies on some issues, but it was a text explicitly against abuses and a promoter of rights, where health, housing, education, social security, people indigenous people, women, neurodivergent people, regions, communes, children and adolescents, non-human animals, people with disabilities and Nature itself, had a central space.
For this reason, whoever is against this new proposal is obliged to call for a vote against it, after assuming the historic defeat with this closure of Chile's first constituent process. But we cannot sit back and wait for a new social outbreak to occur in the country.
