53% of chileans has not yet decided whether to vote for or against the proposal new Constitution in the plebiscite on December 17, a poll of the tHink Tank Center for Public Studies (CEP).
The survey also indicated that 30% of citizens lean towards the option ‘Against’ and 8% for the ‘In favor’ option of the text, while 9% abstained from responding.
The majority of those who are still undecided identify with a center ideology, while 49% of those who reject the proposal declare themselves leftist, according to CEP, which conducted the survey of 1,478 people from 125 neighborhoods in the country between 24 September and November 2 and with a sampling error of 2.8%.
More than 15 million Chileans will speak out in less than a month on the proposal for a new Constitution prepared by a body dominated by the extreme right and the traditional right.
The right defends that the document is better than the current Magna Carta, in force since the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), because “pick up” current citizen concerns, such as security or migration, and ensures that its approval will put an end to the four years of institutional uncertainty that caused the social outbreak of 2019.
The ruling left, on the other hand, describes the proposal as “dogmatic” and “partisan” and denounces that it perpetuates the neoliberal model that the regime installed and represents “setbacks” in social rights.
The text includes some articles that have generated great controversy, such as the consecration of the “right to life of the unborn” -a rule that the ruling party fears will collide with the application of the law that allows abortion on three grounds-, the immediate expulsion of the migrants irregularities or the tax exemption for the first home, which benefits people with higher incomes.
This is the second constitutional process that Chile is experiencing, after the one that concluded in September 2022 with a resounding rejection by the electorate of a project written by a leftist convention that proposed a radical transformation of Chilean institutions.
If this new proposal is finally rejected on December 17, the current Constitution will remain in force because the President’s Government Gabriel Boric He has already announced that he will not promote a third attempt.
Source: Gestion
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