In Chile, after the rejection of the proposal for a new Constitution, on Sunday September 4, some clashes took place in the capital between demonstrators and the police. President Gabriel Boric, for his part, met on September 5 with the representatives of Congress asking them to follow through on the constitutional process. This Tuesday, he is continuing discussions with part of the right which had voted against the new text. But for the more than four million Chileans who voted in favor of the new Constitution, the pill is hard to swallow.
With our correspondent in Santiago, Naila Derroisne
Twice a week for a year, Érica, 76, settled in the center of Santiago to defend the new Constitution: “”I approved you, I elected you, I defend you” , it was our slogan. We chatted with passers-by and many had no idea what a Constitution was. What is happening in Chile is that the dictatorship has made us ignorant “.
The President of the Constituent Assembly had even nicknamed her ” The Mother of the Constitution “. “ I had to fight for my grandchildren and my great grandchildren to have a new Constitutionsighs Erica. And we got this result. »
“ Inexplicable »
With a trembling voice, she recounts that she was in a polling station when she understood that the new Constitution would be rejected. ” I arrived home and I cried, cried a lot. The result is inexplicable, I really can’t understand what happened she says again.
But Érica does not lose hope: I will first rest and I will continue to work so that the new Constitution becomes a reality. But a reality in the style of the people and which brings together our demands: better education, better pensions and more consideration for the elderly “. It supports President Boric and his initiative to launch a new constitutional process.
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