2023-05-08 04:44:26
Republican Party won 35.5% of the votes, while the group led by the current Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, took 28%
the president of Chile Gabriel Boric suffered yet another important defeat this Sunday, the 7th. The country’s ultra-conservative right won the Constituent election. O Republican Party, considered extreme right, obtained 35.5% of the votes. The party is led by the former presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast. In second place, the left-wing group Unidad para Chile, led by the current Chilean president, won 28% of the vote. Almost 100% of the polls were counted. Kasta’s party won the most seats available in the Council: 33. “Today is the first day of a better future, a new beginning for Chile,” said Kast, celebrating the outcome of the election. Articles will need three-fifths of the board to pass. The new text had started to be written in June, based on a project compiled by constitutional experts appointed by the Chilean Congress in March. After that, Chilean voters will approve or reject the new text in December of this year. A first version of the text was rejected by the population in September.
Elected directors will have to respect 12 agreed principles. One of them is the realization that Chile is a democratic republic, with a unitary, decentralized State formed by the Three Powers. Another principle is that the Central Bank, Electoral Justice, Public Ministry and Comptroller are independent bodies. The current text has been in force since 1980, during the government of Augusto Pinochet. The current president, who had the text rejected last year, said in the morning that he will respect the process. “The government will not interfere in the process and will respect the autonomy of the entity in its deliberations”, said the Chilean president.
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