Daniel Jadue, one of the main figures of the Chilean Communist Party, reflected this Sunday, perhaps like no other exponent of local politics, the mix of fed up and helplessness before the succession of electoral processes in which the country has been immersed since the social outbreak of October 2019: A reporter’s simple and insistent questions made me lose my temper.
“I ask for a little more respect, thank you very much,” was the unusual reaction of Jadue, mayor of the Santiago commune of Recoleta, while with his hand he lowered the reporter’s arm and moved the microphone away from her face upon entering a restaurant. vote.
The last question from the CNN Chile reporter had been direct, very clear, but the last thing Jadue wanted was to respond on the subject: “Are you willing to promote a new constituent process?”
The question included an implicit premise, that of failure of the leftwhich as of 2019 successfully installed the idea that in the Constitution sanctioned in 1980 by the dictator Augusto Pinochet y renovated in 2005 by the social democrat Ricardo Lagos there were all the problems of the countryand that the solutions will be found in a new Magna Carta.
He first plebiscitein September 2022, rejected the proposal by 62% of an excessively left-wing text and almost refounding of the State; he secondin this December 2023, proposes what many see as a “right-wing Constitution”. It is the Chilean political pendulum, increasingly accelerated and crazy.