Chile has rejected the proposed new Constitution by an overwhelming 62% of the votes and has decided to maintain the current text, inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, after a historic plebiscite.
With 90% scrutinized, the option of rejecting the new text has been confirmed as the majority, compared to 38% who have supported the approval of the new Constitution.
"Today there are no winners or losers. There are Chileans who have to meet again," declared the leader of the "Rejection" campaign, Claudio Salinas, in the closing stages of the vote.
After voting this Sunday morning, Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced before the results were known that he would convene all social and political forces after the vote.
For his part, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has considered that the victory of the Rejection in the plebiscite that Chile has celebrated supposes a return of the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, from whom the current constitutional norm is heir.
"Pinochet revived", Petro has stated through a message on his Twitter account in which he has 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 democratic and social forces unite, will it be possible to leave behind a past that stains all of Latin America and open the democratic alamedas", in a reference to the emblematic phrase of Chilean President Salvador Allende, overthrown by Pinochet's coup.
