“The day after the elections: the future of the Constitutional Convention”, the seminar that will analyze the future of the constituent body after a runoff

In order to begin the “second half” of the Constitutional Convention, a couple of issues have to be defined, beyond the renewal in the board of directors, to be held in mid-January, and the expected immersion in the debate of the substantive issues and in the drafting of the new constitutional text. The future of the constituent process is defined, which is inevitably linked to the electoral events of the day.
If the election of November 21 already anticipated that a new National Congress is coming framed in a “neutralization of politics”, which has a direct impact on a key issue such as the granting of an eventual extension, a plebiscite or see more resources for the Constitutional Convention, the second presidential round that will be held this Sunday may eventually leave this work in “checkmate”, and have a direct impact on the results of the expected exit plebiscite, to be held next winter.
That is why next Monday, December 20 at noon -and through Zoom-, already with the result of the runoff in sight on whether it will be Gabriel Boric or José Antonio Kast who will be in charge of the Executive Power for the next four years (unless the new Fundamental Charter provides another term, if approved), the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the Latin American Observatory for the Constituent Process in Chile, in partnership with El Mostrador, have co-organized the International Seminar “The Day After the Elections: The Coming of the Constitutional Convention”.
For this event, an Ibero-American panel of outstanding constitutionalists has been convened, who will present electronically: professors Roberto Viciano, from the University of Valencia, Spain; Julio César Ortiz, from the Externado de Colombia University; Jaime Cárdenas, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico; Francisco Eguiguren, from the Catholic University of Peru, and academics Claudia Storini, from the Simón Bolívar Andean University -Ecuador- and Vanessa Berner, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who, based on comparative experience and taking note of the previous constituent processes in Latin America, will seek to comment on their impressions on the future of the Convention and the constituent process within this new scenario and their respective guidelines.
All this preceded by an exhibition contextualizing the current situation and posing in advance the challenges for the process looked at from the place of the facts, by the professor of Constitutional Law of the University of Chile Francisco Zúñiga Urbina, The moderation will be in charge of Enza Alvarado Parra, researcher of the same House of Studies.
Registrations can be made at the following link: tinyurl.com/32ynknme

Original source in Spanish