date
- 21.10.2022
seminar
Elisa Giustinianovich, Alejandra Salinas Inostroza, Viviana Soledad Delgado Riquelme “Constitutional developments in Chile”
Social movements erupted during the last decades against the cracks of the Chilean model; they have developed and gained experience in the heat of anti-neoliberal and popular struggles. The 2019 social revolt forced the opening of a constitutional process. Social movements decided to get involved in the institutional field with the aim of dismantling the foundations of the neoliberal-authoritarian model and of laying the foundations for a solidary and democratic project. The proposed constitutional text was unquestionably rejected in the plebiscite due to various factors whose significance is still unclear: some are external to the process itself (the social and mental health effects of the pandemic, inflation); other unprecedented (mandatory universal suffrage); the power of property-owning classes and internal weaknesses; and the popular perception of certain elements of the proposal which caused instense irritation. A cycle of challenges is closed, and a new stage begins that requires accurate diagnoses since the general political objectives remain unmaterialized.
bio
Elisa Giustinianovich is s a Chilean politician, political activist, scholar as well as the Deputy Vice President of theConstitutional Convention of the Republic of Chile. She is one of the founders of “Movimientos Sociales Constituyentes” (MSC), a group of conventionalists that seeks to introduce and environmentalist and feminist perspective in the Constitutional Convention.
Alejandra Salinas Inostroza was elected as a councillor as an independent candidate on the list of the Green Party, with the highest number of votes in her commune, Maipú, and one of the highest in Chile. She is a kindergarten teacher and has dedicated an important part of her life to the education of children which has given her the ability “to get to know different realities” and to realize “how important education continues to be and will always be”. She participates in the NO + AFP movement, as well as in the National Federation of Education Workers (FENATED), Movement for Teaching Unity (MUD), 8M Trade Unionists and Workers and “La Sate Organizes”.
Viviana Soledad Delgado Riquelme is a Chilean environmental and political activist, a member of the Green Ecologist Party. Since March 2022, she has been a deputy for District No. 8 of the Metropolitan Region. She started her political and social engagement at the age of 14 when she participated at the Todos Juntos Cultural Center in the town of La Pincoya, during the military dictatorship. Later she held various positions in neighbourhood councils, defending environmental causes such as the defence of the Quebrada de la Plata, making visible the consequences related to the construction of the Sonacol pipeline as well as to the widening works on Autopista del Sol. She has dedicated her life to defending her community and to fighting against projects that threaten the health and safety of citizens.
date
- 21.10.2022
bio
Elisa Giustinianovich is s a Chilean politician, political activist, scholar as well as the Deputy Vice President of theConstitutional Convention of the Republic of Chile. She is one of the founders of “Movimientos Sociales Constituyentes” (MSC), a group of conventionalists that seeks to introduce and environmentalist and feminist perspective in the Constitutional Convention.
Alejandra Salinas Inostroza was elected as a councillor as an independent candidate on the list of the Green Party, with the highest number of votes in her commune, Maipú, and one of the highest in Chile. She is a kindergarten teacher and has dedicated an important part of her life to the education of children which has given her the ability “to get to know different realities” and to realize “how important education continues to be and will always be”. She participates in the NO + AFP movement, as well as in the National Federation of Education Workers (FENATED), Movement for Teaching Unity (MUD), 8M Trade Unionists and Workers and “La Sate Organizes”.
Viviana Soledad Delgado Riquelme is a Chilean environmental and political activist, a member of the Green Ecologist Party. Since March 2022, she has been a deputy for District No. 8 of the Metropolitan Region. She started her political and social engagement at the age of 14 when she participated at the Todos Juntos Cultural Center in the town of La Pincoya, during the military dictatorship. Later she held various positions in neighbourhood councils, defending environmental causes such as the defence of the Quebrada de la Plata, making visible the consequences related to the construction of the Sonacol pipeline as well as to the widening works on Autopista del Sol. She has dedicated her life to defending her community and to fighting against projects that threaten the health and safety of citizens.
seminar
Elisa Giustinianovich, Alejandra Salinas Inostroza, Viviana Soledad Delgado Riquelme “Constitutional developments in Chile”
Social movements erupted during the last decades against the cracks of the Chilean model; they have developed and gained experience in the heat of anti-neoliberal and popular struggles. The 2019 social revolt forced the opening of a constitutional process. Social movements decided to get involved in the institutional field with the aim of dismantling the foundations of the neoliberal-authoritarian model and of laying the foundations for a solidary and democratic project. The proposed constitutional text was unquestionably rejected in the plebiscite due to various factors whose significance is still unclear: some are external to the process itself (the social and mental health effects of the pandemic, inflation); other unprecedented (mandatory universal suffrage); the power of property-owning classes and internal weaknesses; and the popular perception of certain elements of the proposal which caused instense irritation. A cycle of challenges is closed, and a new stage begins that requires accurate diagnoses since the general political objectives remain unmaterialized.
