Chile: Citizen rejection of proposed new constitution grows

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The project for a new Chilean Constitution, promoted by President Gabriel Boric, faces a growing citizen rejection, which is reflected in the polls where the main arguments of the opponents are the lack of clarity, economic uncertainty, the excess of State powers and distrust in the process. teleSUR

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00:00 Welcome back from the South.

00:01 57% of Chileans are against the draft of the Magna Carta that will be submitted to referendum

00:07 on December 17th, according to a survey conducted by the firm Black and White.

00:12 The survey was published after President Gabriel Boric received the text drafted by the Constitutional

00:17 Council at the beginning of the week, where the extreme right-wing and the conservative

00:21 Chilean Vamos Alliance took advantage of their ample majority to impose controversial amendments.

00:28 Among the most controversial issues are those that reject the right to strike and union

00:33 freedom.

00:34 The internationalized private health and pension administrators advocate the privatization

00:38 of education and eliminate gender parity in the Chamber of Deputies.

00:42 Another controversial issue is that which could favor house arrests for those convicted

00:47 of serious human rights violations during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

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