Chile’s Climate Constitution
3 hours ago Guest Blogger
Douglas Pollock
Short after the well-planned communist coup on October 18, 2019 and the burning, destruction, plundering and crime committed in Chile’s main cities, President Piñera unconditionally surrendered and handed over to the extreme left the Constitution in exchange for a peace that only came months later with the pandemic.
This is how a long process to change the Chilean’s basic political document began, process that citizens categorically rejected (62%) in an “exit plebiscite” in September 2022. However, just a few days later and ignoring the people’s mandate in an unconstitutional and illegal collusion between the current extreme leftist president —Boric— and Piñera, a second process was launched to draft a new constitutional text that will end in December 2023 with another plebiscite.
The new Constitution proposal, drafted by a committee of 24 “experts” and approved by 50 constitutional advisors elected by vote last May, is rather closer to those of Nicaragua and Venezuela than to the one enacted in 1980 under the government of President Pinochet that gave Chile stability and economic growth for almost 40 years. Amazingly, a chapter called “Environmental Protection, Sustainability and Development” (chapter XVI) was incorporated. It contains eight articles that raise climate change to a constitutional mandate, something never done by any nation.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/11/chiles-climate-constitution/
