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The second part of Chile’s founding process will begin this Monday, March 6, marked by a lack of expectations and citizen interest, with the debut of 24 parliamentary-appointed experts responsible for preparing a draft that will serve as the basis for the 50 voters who will be elected in May to develop a proposal for new Constitution.
A committee of experts (12 elected by the Chamber of Deputies and 12 by the Senate) met for the first time on Friday in the old Congress of Santiago to get to know each other, and expressed concern about the three-month time limit, according to their “short and meager”, of those available for writing a preliminary draft Founding Charter.
The body, made up of several veterans of Chilean politics, will be led primarily by former Justice Minister of the second government of former President Sebastian Piñera (2010-2014 and 2018-2022), Hernán Larrain. The regulation states that the senior member of the group must act as president until a new board of directors is elected.
At noon this Monday, the Admissibility Technical Committee will also be established, that is, 14 lawyers in charge of “arbitrating” the entire process, and, like the Committee of Experts, will elect their president and vice president.
“There is fatigue from the constituent process”
According to the latest edition of the Chilean poll Pulso Ciudadano published in February, 57% of the population Chile they have little or no trust in the founding process, which is 2.3 points more than in the January measurement. 16.7% are confident or somewhat confident, and 26.2% are moderately confident.
“Citizens are experiencing a kind of constitutional fatigue, there is fatigue associated with the founding process, especially because of the excesses that the first one had,” said the dean of the faculty of public administration of the Central University. ChileMarco Moreno.
“People are at a certain distance from it, they know little about it and are focused on other priorities, such as insecurity, public order, migration and economic management,” he added.
For his part, a political scientist from the University of Chile Maria Cristina Escudero emphasized that although more than 50% of those surveyed indicated the need to create a new Constitution”there is not too much attachment to participating in the process that is about to begin.”
According to Moreno, “People want to delegate the development of a new constitutional text to experts and thereby distance themselves from a greater role than in the previous discussion.”
After the draft is presented, professionals elected by parliamentarians who have an academic profile and experience in positions in public administration will have the right to speak, but not vote.
“Engage the public”
On January 11, the Chamber of Deputies enacted a constitutional reform that allows for a second constitutional process, so that Chile adopt a new Basic Charter next year.
The members of the so-called Constitutional Council will be elected in the May 7 elections and will have up to 5 months to prepare a text proposal, which the citizens will then vote on in a December 17 plebiscite.
“The big challenge for the new founding process is to gain legitimacy and get the citizens involved so that it does well in the December exit plebiscite,” Escudero says.
Unlike the previous process, the current process includes 12 institutional principles that an editorial body must follow that will prevent a proposal for re-establishment, such as the one that was rejected by more than 62.5% of voters on September 4 and that was drafted by a convention with a progressive majority. and consists of independent citizens who do not belong to any party.
Despite the rejection in the September plebiscite, there is consensus on the need to replace Constitution current established during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
(As reported by EFE)
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