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El Siglo's GONZALO MAGUEDA and PATRICIA RYAN look at the way an extreme-right wing agenda is being steamrolled through the Constituent Convention
CASTING OFF A MALEVOLENT SHADOW: (Left) Augusto Pinochet in 1986; (right) Member of the Constitutional Convetion for the Communist Party of Chile Karen Araya Rojas, June 2023
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THE opinion of constitutional convention councillor for the Communist Party of Chile, Karen Araya, is that the Convention’s postulates so far represent “a step backwards in legislative matters.” This conclusion is supported by the rector of the Academy of Christian Humanism University, Alvaro Ramis, who said: “The failure of the project for a new constitution for Chile is already undeniable.”
Another comment last week from within the conventions was that “the [right-wing] Republicans [who have an absolute majority] and the right are steamrolling their ideas” and thereby “making the same mistake as the first and failed Constituent Convention — one of producing a text that satisfies only one political sector.”
The following are some of the concerns voiced by the progressive parties and their members of the convention.
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