More than a thousand lawyers, graduates in Legal and Social Sciences, and graduates of the different Law Schools of the country, gathered in the group Lawyers for approval, supported in a letter that option in the face of the plebiscite of September 4. They stressed that it is a “decisive” step in the strengthening of democracy and that it will allow, over time, to improve “our daily lives”.
“With the conviction that it is the best thing for Chile, we call on citizens to take the step to a new Constitution, democratic, parity and according to the new reality of our country, the region and the world,” they said in the letter, which has 1,160 signatories.
They pointed out that the proposal for a new Magna Carta “represents a decisive step in the strengthening of democracy, in the necessary modernization of the organs of the State, and in the beginning of a path of reunion and national unity based on social justice, equity, participation, probity, parity, inclusion and unrestricted respect for human rights in all its dimensions.”
Among the aspects highlighted by the signatories is the end of the subsidiary State, “which gives way to a Social State of Law, which guarantees that all people have the possibility of developing personally and communally according to a public framework at the service of it”.
“Democracy, institutional stability and social peace demand an end to the deep inequities and injustices sustained in the last 40 years, and the text of the New Constitution points precisely in this direction,” they added.
They also indicated that “the new text contemplates an important catalog of social rights, which are the material condition of freedom. We are free to choose when we all have a basic floor and the necessary benefits to develop our lives.”
In this regard, they note that the proposal enshrines rights not considered in the current Constitution, such as access to water and sanitation; decent and adequate housing; freedom of association, trade union ownership and the right to strike; comprehensive health and well-being; culture; sport; dignified old age; reproductive self-determination; and care and its recognition as work, among others.
Finally, they pointed out that “the new Constitution is not a magic recipe that can, overnight, solve each and every one of the problems that afflict Chileans; however, we reiterate our conviction that keeping the current Constitution in force will only deepen the injustices and inequities that are hitting us today.”
“The constitutional proposal that we call for approval is a solid and hopeful beginning that will allow us to improve our reality and our daily lives over time,” they added.
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