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President Sebastián Piñera participated this Monday in the XIII Atlantic Forum: “Latin America and the world, post-pandemic challenges”, where he referred to the protests that originated after the social outbreak and the triumph of the Approval in the Constitutional Plebiscite.
Piñera’s intervention occurs within the framework of the “campaign” to position the President at the international level, taking into account the interview he gave to the Spanish newspaper The world, and a virtual conversation at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, in which he has also referred to the constitutional process underway, seeking to position himself as the protagonist of this milestone.
In this XIII Atlantic Forum, where the Colombian president Iván Duque and the former Argentine president Mauricio Macri were also present, Piñera addressed the social outbreak, noting that “what emerged most strongly was a demand to accelerate greater equity, greater equality of opportunities , a demand to fight with more force and less tolerance for abuse. With that, a very radical left emerged, very populist, very little respectful of the rules of democracy, of the rules of the rule of law, which has raised things that in my opinion would be very negative for Chile ”.
Later he criticized this “radical left” again: “I am concerned because Chile is neither free nor exempt from populism. Today we have a lot of populism in the country, people who promise success without work, but for that it is so important to understand that for there to be equity there must be progress ”.
“A very radical, very extremist left has emerged in Chile that does not respect the basic principles of the rule of law. That left is not the path that Chile needs. The second danger is that the center-left has been too pressured and sometimes allowed to be carried away by this other extremist left. Until now, that left that does not have the votes, but many times goes hand in hand with violence and goes hand in hand with populism and does not respect the basic values and principles of democracy, has played a role in Chile that does not correspond to it ” He added at the forum organized by the International Foundation for Freedom (FIL), chaired by the Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa.
Regarding the new Constitution, Piñera assured that it will be very good for Chile “to have a Constitution that does not divide us, but unites us. Countries, constitutions do not start from scratch. Every Constitution is a confluence of generations, those of the past, the of the present and those of the future, and I think that the Constitution should include republican traditions, values such as the value of freedom, that includes essential rights and Human Rights for all ”.
“I have faith and confidence that, with adjustments, the Chilean model is not going to be thrown overboard, and that we will be able to agree on a new Constitution,” added Piñera, highlighting the virtues of our country’s economic model in the last 30 years.
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