A copy of the draft of the new Constitution of Chile, in a kiosk in the center of Santiago (Chile). Photo: EFE
A new poll in Chile reveals that the proposed constitution, which the neighboring country will have to vote in a plebiscite in September, is on the edge of the abysswith a rejection rate of 53%.
A survey of Cadem squarecarried out in the first week of July, concludes that 53 percent will vote “reject” in the September plebiscite; 35 will vote “I approve” and 12% are undecided.
That 53 per cent of rejections has been on the rise since the beginning of June, when the no to the draft Constitution had dropped to 43 per cent.
Militants in favor of the constitutional proposal campaign in Santiago. Photo: EFE
But since then the refusal has not stopped growing, rising from 43, to 46, to 51 and finally to 53% in the survey carried out between Wednesday 6 July and Friday 8 July.
The investigation was conducted through telephone inquiries. was interviewed 708 peoplemen and women aged 18 and over, residing in the country’s 16 regions.
The majority of those consulted indicated that the constitutional proposal makes you worried or scared while 35% said they had produced hope.
Boric’s management
The poll also puts a magnifying glass on President Gabriel Boric’s popularity.
58% of respondents disapprove of the way Boric is leading the government, a percentage that shows some improvement from the peak of 62% recorded in a survey carried out a week earlier. 36% approve of the presidential administration, up from 33% the previous week.
The Mapuche, against the proposal
This was stated this Sunday by the radical Mapuche organization Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM). the proposed plurinationality in the new Chilean Constitution is an “empty aspiration” and called to continue a “frontal resistance” while claiming five acts of sabotage south of that country.
According to the CAM in a statement, a year after the death of Pablo Marchant, a 29-year-old militant who was killed on 9 July 2021 after an arson attack in the Carahue area, in the Araucanía region, their political line was “reinforced”. military and guarantee it they will not dialogue and “negotiate less” with the current government by Borico.
Members of the Mapuche community of Temuco. Photo: Mario Quilodran / AFP
The government planned this week to extend the state of emergency in the south, which allows for military deployment in the face of Mapuche violence.
“We cannot delegate our struggle to institutional changes that have historically failed and divided our people and our territory, an issue that has been continuously researched in the last 30 years to date by successive neoliberal governments”, underlines the CAM in a document disseminated on local media and social networks.
“In these times of strategic confusion, where Chile is boasted as a country allegedly on the path to plurinationality, the call is for unity and consistency in frontal resistance against capitalism and colonial persistence in Wallmapu,” they add.
CAM, whose first violent action was recorded in 1997, is the most important organization of the Mapuche “autonomist” movement of the last 25 years,
wording with Clarione with information from Plaza Pública Cadem and EFE
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Source: Clarin
