Wednesday May 18, 2022 | 13:44
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Chilean president, Michelle Bachelet, maintained that “I hope it will be approved, I think it should be approved” the new Constitution whose draft was concluded by the Constitutional Convention, since “it offers a new social contract” and would break with the previous text that dates from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The words of the former president come when the current draft of the Constitution is in its final review phase and is scheduled to go through the filter of a national referendum in September.
The new Magna Carta comes to try to solve some of the main problems that the country has dragged on since the dictatorship, such as access to housing, water, health, as well as to give greater representation to indigenous communities.
Bachelet’s support is considered essential at a time when the opinion drawn from the latest polls seems to have turned their backs on this Constitution.
“I think that one of the challenges ahead is being able to communicate better with the people,” said the former president in relation to those in charge of the commission that prepares the new Constitution during an interview for the agency Bloomberg.
This increase in skepticism towards the Constitution coincides with the drop in the approval ratings of President Gabriel Boric, who is finding it difficult to offer immediate solutions to problems that the country has suffered for years, such as public security and the deterioration of the economy.
In this sense, Bachelet revealed that a few months ago in a conversation they had, she pointed out that profound changes require time and the patience of voters. “Great expectations can never be fulfilled. Normally they are unrealistic expectations because people want changes in two months”, he maintained.
