To the dismay of many scientists in Chile, voters resoundingly rejected a draft constitution that would have had major impacts on research, environmental policies, and Indigenous rights.
Sixty-two percent of voters said “no” during a referendum yesterday on the new charter, which would have steered the country sharply leftward.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric has said he would be meeting with party leaders today to discuss what happens next. For now, the country’s current constitution, adopted in 1980 during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, remains in force. But proponents of the new version hope the debate of the past year will spur changes anyway. On climate and environment, as well as gender parity, “There’s no turning back,” Barbosa says. “I’m happy that this served as a push for change.
Scientists contributed to several parts of the draft. For example, the Ecological Society of Chile helped devise protections for native biodiversity, says Cristina Dorador Ortiz, a microbiologist at the University of Antofagasta and a member of the constitutional convention. Scientists supportive of the proposal acknowledge that it had its flaws, as did the path that led to it. The process was rushed from the start, says Adriana Bastías, a biochemist at the Autonomous University of Chile, Santiago, and president of the Chilean Network of Women Scientists. Few citizens had time to review the. Trujillo Osorio says concepts such as the “rights of nature” were too vague and its meaning and implementation mechanisms should have been better explained.
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