In Chile, the popular movement wins.
The great popular mobilization that began in Chile on October 18, 2019, wrote a new and resounding chapter on the weekend of May 15 and 16, 2021, unequivocally defeating the right wing at the polls in the Constituent election called to draft the new Magna Carta that will bury the one inherited from the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
According to preliminary results, the left and independent candidates will have a majority when it comes to making decisions when the Constitutional Convention meets, composed of 155 people elected in a gender-balanced manner and with the inclusion of 17 seats reserved for indigenous peoples.
The elections are a continuation of the plebiscite of October 25, 2020, in which Chileans voted by almost 80% to draft a new Constitution to replace the current one, inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
CLACSO welcomes this new teaching from the popular field in Chile and the great choice of the feminists from the social movements who participated in the special cycle that we carried out together with the supplement Las 12 of the Argentine newspaper Página 12, hosted by Ana Cacopardo.
See Constituent Feminists in Chile
We also congratulate two members of CLACSO Working Groups who were elected to the Constitutional Convention: the lawyer Manuela Royo, from the Working Group "Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Projects"; and Elisa LonconFrom the Working Group on "Education and Interculturality," who will occupy one of the 17 seats reserved for indigenous peoples. Both will bring to the chamber the voice of the linguistic and educational rights of indigenous populations; their participation bodes well for progress in the challenge of building multiethnic and multilingual states throughout Latin America.
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