“Tía Pikachu” accused discrimination by right-wing constituents: “They treated us as banana growers, as pungas”

Giovanna Grandón, better known as “Aunt Pikachu”, addressed the work of the Constitutional Convention and acknowledged that she is satisfied with the changes reached in the proposal for a new Magna Carta. However, along with warning that he would return to the streets if the Rejection wins in the exit plebiscite, he revealed that he also suffered discrimination from some right-wing constituents.
The former member of the People’s List and part of the subsequent Plurinational Coordinator, said, in an interview with La Tercera, that she had not felt quite good working on the Convention, since “there was a lot of discrimination, especially to those of us who live in the population.”
Asked if there was classism within the drafting body, the conventional Grandón accused that, indeed, “they treated us as banana growers, as pungas. There are the full engravings.”
“There Marinovic is and the poisonous girls of Cantuarias and Montealegre. First they began to throw away hatred, as no one caught them. On several occasions he also answered sarcastically,” he added.
Grandón also commented that the totality of “the dreams of millions” in this new Constitution was not fulfilled. “To fulfill the dreams, the changes would have had to be a little more radical,” said “Aunt Pikachu,” adding that she would have liked “education, for example, to have been free from the nursery forward.”
“But yes, we managed to move forward,” he said.
“It was a bit of a tedious process, a bit of a long one. For me it was a little different. I don’t come from working with these political forms,” Grandón said. And he concluded: “It is that here in the beginning, when these political logics began, we independents were many. So, we could stop a lot of things so that they didn’t come to us to pass machine.”

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