Friday February 18, 2022 | 22:36
The Plenary of the Convention approved to go from a unitary state, to a Regional, Plurinational and Intercultural state. The article will be written in the draft of the constitutional proposal.
The plenary session of the Constituent Convention defined this Friday the articles on the form of the State, which will be incorporated into the proposal for a new Constitution, consecrating the definition of Regional State.
Total, 24 of the 28 articles of the report of the State Form Commission managed to be approved, either totally or partially, so they will become part of the proposal for a new Constitution.
Some approved regulations were Article 18: “Of the Autonomous Regions”, which defines them as “political and territorial entities endowed with legal personality under public law” and that have “the management of its economic resources and the exercise of legislative, regulatory, executive and supervisory powers”.
It is worth mentioning that section 1 of article 1 was also approved in particular: “Of the Regional State”. This was supported with 112 votes, 34 once morest and 2 abstentions.
This article is related to the fact that “Chile is a regional, plurinational and intercultural state made up of autonomous territorial entities, within a framework of equity and solidarity among all of them, preserving the unity and integrity of the state.”
Articles approved by the plenary session of the Convention
-Article 1 of the Regional State.
-Article 2 Of the Territorial Entities.
-Article 3 of the Territory.
-A subsection of Article 4.
-Article 5 of the autonomy of territorial entities.
-Article 6 Solidarity, cooperation and territorial association in the Regional State.
-Article 7 Of the Participation in the territorial entities in the Regional State.
-Article 8 of Territorial Development.
-Article 9 of Equity, Solidarity and territorial justice.
-Article 10 Of Plurinationality and interculturality in the Regional State.
-Article 11 Of the postulation and cessation to the positions of the territorial entities.
-Article 12 Principle of non-tutelage between territorial entities.
-Article 13 Correspondence between competences and resources.
-Article 14 Matters of competence.
-Article 16 Preferential filing of powers.
-Article 17 Territorial differentiation.
-Article 18 Of the Autonomous Regions.
-Article 23 of the Regional Government.
-Article 24 of the Council of Mayors.
-A subsection of Article 26.
-Article 27 Of the competences of the Autonomous Region.
-Article 28 Of the entities with jurisdiction over the entire territory.
-Article 29 of the Council of Governments.
-Article 35.- Of the exclusive powers of the Regional Government.