We don’t just need more regulations and mandates. Changes to laws on education, policing, mining and elections require four-sevenths majorities in both houses of Congress. The privately managed pension system that protestors pilloried as a totem of avarice and exclusion represented assets worth 81% of gross domestic product in 2019. By giving citizens a choice of contributing towards the public health-care system or a private one, the charter makes it hard for the state to set up a taxpayer-financed health-care system like Britain’s NHS. It took a year to come to the point where a referendum was held to determine if the people of Chile want to rewrite the constitution or not. The court might also strike down any attempt to replace privately managed pensions as an infringement of the right to choose between public and private systems. posted on Okt. They will probably agree to a constitutional mention of indigenous Chileans, 9% of Chile’s 19m people, and perhaps encourage use of their languages. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido Chileans have voted overwhelmingly in a landmark referendum to replace their dictatorship-era constitution, long seen as underpinning the nation's glaring economic and social inequalities. Last week, Chile’s government announced the Agreement for Social Peace and a New Constitution. A YEAR AFTER the outbreak of huge protests in which at least 30 people died, Chileans assembled again. Chile has reported 200 cases of COVID-19 so far, but no fatalities yet. Re: Chile Constitutional Referendum, October 25th 2020 « Reply #148 on: October 26, 2020, 07:51:21 AM » Quote from: Cosmopolitanism Will Win on October 26, 2020, 01:30:55 AM But investors are right to worry that writing a new charter for Latin America’s fading star won’t be. We need to expand solidarity coverage for the middle class and include informal workers, who have been left behind,” Fernando Larrain, director general of Chile’s privately run association of pension funds, told me. Citizens of Chile will vote Oct. 25 on a referendum that may clear the way for a re-write of the country’s constitution, a key demand stemming from a period of civil unrest in late 2019. But investors are right to worry that writing a new charter for Latin America’s fading star won’t be. Members may not propose tax or spending bills. Advocates of the new charter want to introduce the idea of “equality of opportunity”, which in Chilean terms means making better public services affordable for everyone. This referendum was postponed in response to COVID-19 from March 24, 2020 to October 25, 2020. Chile’s constitutional referendum last month was its most important vote since the country transitioned to democracy in 1989. “All the structural inputs for a mass rejection of the status quo are there.”. New demands on government spending may be tamed by rules that protect fiscal stability. Updated 10:34 AM ET, Mon October 26, 2020 Chileans celebrate the referendum results at Santiago's Plaza Italia on Sunday evening (CNN) Chile's President Sebastian Piñera hailed the … This post is also available in: Spanish (Image by Carlos Lizama) Russia’s New Guerilla Media Are Going After Putin, Old West Nostalgia and New West Politics on Route 66, capture of public institutions by private interest, 29% of laborers still draw their livelihoods from the parlous informal economy. But a more enduring solution is supposed to come from a referendum, to be held on October 25th, on whether Chile should scrap its constitution and write a new one. To contact the author of this story:Mac Margolis at mmargolis14@bloomberg.net, To contact the editor responsible for this story:James Gibney at jgibney5@bloomberg.net, Mac Margolis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Latin and South America. Redaksi 17/10/2020 No comment. The overwhelming triumph of Apruebo and the constitutional convention has exceeded... apruebo chile constitution pinochet referendum. Some of these charters — Venezuela is working on #27, and the Dominican Republic has drafted 32 of them — are so stuffed with liberties and entitlements they read like a democratic bucket list. While requiring people to save for their own pensions was a bold idea, the system presupposed a society where steady work and good jobs were abundant, return on investment robust and the population grayed only gradually. These protests quickly led to demands for the abolition of Augusto Pinochet’s neoliberal constitution. Instead, Chileans learned that savings rise or tank with the markets, life expectancy has soared and at least 29% of laborers still draw their livelihoods from the parlous informal economy. Will it become spendthrift? As the nation geared up for voting, tensions were high. “This provides a chance to channel in a civilised way something that got really scary,” says Javier Couso, a constitutional scholar at Diego Portales and Utrecht universities who advises the centrist Christian Democratic Party. The country’s moneyed classes may think of their sky-scrapered capital as Sanhattan, but they are surrounded by less sightly boroughs. That’s a call for improving the system, not nationalizing it — an onerous move that some of Chile’s neighbors have embraced and others are trying to reverse.“The Chilean model is a unique way of conceiving the state and economy in Latin America, and that’s really what’s on the dock,” said economist Juan Nagel, who teaches at the Universidad de los Andes, in Santiago. N atalia Aravena rushed down a small side street to escape, she recalls. 21.10.2020 - Santiago de Chile - Redacción Chile. Will the 2020 Constitutional Referendum Change Chile? [2] Nicolás Somma et al., No water in the oasis: the Chilean Spring of 2019–2020, Social Movement Studies 1–8 (2020). “If Chileans go the same way, they could be forced to later undo a lot of unaffordable guarantees just in order to govern.”. A constitutional overhaul is a hard turn for a market-friendly culture anchored in stability and dependable rules. 17, 2020 at 8:07 pm. The day ended with attacks on police stations and two churches ablaze. Regions cannot raise their own revenues, which concentrates power in Santiago. Home Internasional Will the 2020 Constitutional Referendum Change Chile? Campaign promises will influence the drafters. What’s harder to fathom is how to write all that exaltation into a workable compendium of laws that answers Chile’s aspirations and plays to its strengths as a Latin American economic exemplar. In need of a new edifice Chile’s momentous referendum on its constitution. The president will probably lose some powers; some delegates will argue for adopting a parliamentary system. “The voters have said the model has to change fundamentally, but it’s unclear how. The referendum in Chile was held on Sunday with a resounding result in favor of reforming the constitution. Article 192 of Brazil’s 1988 constitution famously capped interest rates at 12%, although it soon became a dead letter. The new constitution is … All rights reserved. People line up for their turn to vote during a referendum to decide whether the country should replace its 40-year-old constitution, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. Adopted in 1980, it is the work of the regime led by Augusto Pinochet, a despot who ruled until 1990. A Year After Protests Began, Chile’s Constitutional Referendum Goes Ahead On Sunday, after months of protests, voters can choose to keep … “It’s the sentiment that Chile is run by an entrenched elite who take turns at the helm, in a country with stubbornly high levels of inequality,” economist Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, who teaches at  Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, told me. On October 25, 2020 the Chilean people voted by an emphatic margin to approve a constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. It’s no coincidence that Chilean legislators agreed that any changes to the new charter may only be approved with a two-thirds supermajority of votes — an important firewall against more radical change. They will press for the creation of new social rights, such as an entitlement to housing. Dreamed up as an incentive to enterprise, this arrangement is now accused of winking at the capture of public institutions by private interest. After last … Chile’s income inequality outstrips its OECD peers; it has one of the highest ratios between the average income of the wealthiest 10% of its population and that of the poorest 10%. ... the pandemic sent demonstrators home for much of 2020. Sun 25 Oct 2020 14.02 EDT 14.12 EDT An elderly woman votes in the referendum in the Chilean capital of Santiago. Chileans want to crack the code and create a welfare state. It gives the president the power to dictate which bills get priority in Congress. For the first time in the history of Chile, the country will undergo a process to write a popular constitution, one written by the people in elected assemblies rather than by a dictator and his team of advisers.. The problems with the current constitution start with its origins. Under the influence of pro-market economists educated at the University of Chicago, it not only protected the private sector but gave it a big role in providing public services. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. ... 2020, 10:00 AM EDT Chile’s pandemic-battered credit-rating, recently downgraded to A-minus, is still the envy of Latin America. The odds are that the pro-business centre-right and the small group still nostalgic for Pinochet’s rule will have a blocking minority. Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday signed the decree that summons the constitutional plebiscite on April 26, 2020, which will allow Chileans to decide whether or not they want a new constitution.. RELATED: Victims of Eye Trauma in Chile Demand Reparations "We are going to live a transcendent period in these 121 days that we have until the plebiscite," Piñera said at an event … Chile constitutional referendum vies with new foe: coronavirus, says former president by Reuters Friday, 16 October 2020 15:57 GMT Part of the problem with Chile’s existing charter is pedigree: It was written in 1980, when Chile was under the boot of Augusto Pinochet (1973 – 1990), the region’s iconic military dictator. 17, 2020 at 8:07 pm. Whether woke Chileans will go for anything less than a total reset is a tougher call. We need clearer information on how the virus works so that we can avoid it. For the first time in the history of Chile, the country will undergo a process to write a popular constitution, one written by the people in elected assemblies rather than by a dictator and his team of advisers.. One in five Chileans aged 60 and older live in poverty. This sounds reasonable. Inflation is low, and government spending before the public health emergency was temperate. A constitutional referendum also known as constitutional plebiscite will be held in Chile by April 2020. People light flares as they gather to protest against Chile's government during a referendum on a new Chilean constitution in Santiago, Chile, October 25, 2020 [Ivan Alvarado/Reuters] Chile moves to postpone constitutional referendum amid coronavirus crisis ... Thu 19 Mar 2020 18.23 EDT Last ... Chilean lawmakers have voted to postpone a much-anticipated referendum … This has paved the way for a constitutional referendum in April 2020 that will allow voters to decide if they want a new constitution and, if so, who should draft it — members of Congress or elected Chilean citizens. WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR? On October 25, 2020, Chile’s people voted by a crushing margin to support the writing of a new constitution, and to do so through the election of a new constitutional convention. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido Re: Chile Constitutional Referendum, October 25th 2020 « Reply #123 on: October 25, 2020, 07:14:06 PM » Regional results (especially in the north) seem to resemble more closely the "usual" voting patterns of relative strength for the left (Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, O'Higgins north of 80%) instead of the absolute nonsense that was 2017. Will the 2020 Constitutional Referendum Change Chile? Internasional. Supporters of the "I Approve" option react after hearing the results of the referendum on a new Chilean constitution in Valparaiso, Chile, October 25, 2020. The autonomy of the Central Bank, which has helped kept inflation low, could be weakened. A read of the crowded streets, however, suggests these laurels are an optical illusion and the policies that wrought them are now in peril. If Chileans fail to rewrite their constitution now, demands for radicalism could grow. Chile’s Constitutional Referendum: The post-dictatorship generation is unafraid of change. N atalia Aravena rushed down a small side street to escape, she recalls. In an October 2020 referendum the voting public of the Republic of Chile overwhelmingly approved the idea of drafting a new constitution. Passing Chile’s Constitutional Referendum Was Easy ... 2020 in Santiago, Chile. Chile’s Constitutional Referendum: The post-dictatorship generation is unafraid of change. The pandemic has largely contained such protests. “It is the one that most favours the private sector in the world,” says Mr Couso. More than 7.5 million of 14.97 million eligible Chileans voted in the referendum, the electoral authority said, the largest turnout since Chile adopted voluntary voting in 2012. posted on Okt. Chileans largely blame the constitution. Could Migrant Caravans Return Under Biden? Updated 9:55 AM ET, Sat October 24, 2020 Protesters gather in downtown Santiago on Oct. 18, 2020, as the country prepares for a landmark constitutional referendum. “Yet, this is the first broad-based push for a new constitution since Chile’s transition to democracy.” The road to the referendum launched in October 2019 when the government imposed a 4-percent hike in the cost of public transportation—which amounted to 14 percent of the daily wage of a poor Chilean. To the Chilean street, retaining the tyrant’s rulebook besmirches democracy. 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