translated from Spanish: Piñera highlighted economic aid in pandemic and Constitutional Convention before the UN General Assembly

In his speech before the UN General Assembly, President Sebastián Piñera highlighted the delivery of social aid in the country during the pandemic, and also addressed the constituent process from which he said he hoped, emanate a new Magna Carta that “protects freedoms.” On the pandemic, Piñera estimated at more than US $ 35 billion direct transfers “that have meant help and relief for SMEs and for about 16 million of the almost 20 million Chilean citizens.” These measures have allowed us to recover economic activity and levels of investment prior to the pandemic,” said the President.Respecting the process of drafting a new Constitution, Piñera said that “a Constitutional Convention works in Chile, integrated in an equal way by men and women, and with the presence of representatives of our native peoples.” The President said he hoped that the Convention “will propose the text of a new Constitution, which, improving and correcting everything that must be amended, but also that, incorporating greater equity and social justice, protects our freedoms, collects our republican tradition and collects the values of our society.”

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