'The victims of the result of the plebiscite are the people of Chile'
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Marcos Barraza: The defeat of the “Apruebo” campaign — the “approve” vote — does not have just one single explanation. It requires a rigorous analysis, bearing in mind that this is a struggle that neither ends nor concludes with this defeat.
I believe that because the social impetus and the expectation of a new constitution to replace the one foisted by the dictatorship is still in force that the reasons for the defeat are important to grasp.
Then can you explain these reasons?
The first is not to ignore the fact that there was a national majority that did not feel adequately represented in the draft of the new constitution; this is a fact, a reality which remains to be analysed in more detail.
Second, I believe that we should not overlook a multimillion-dollar campaign by the right wing that shamelessly and continuously lied about the actual contents of the draft constitution, effectively obscuring the positive attributes of the text. The vast majority of people just accepted the lies at face value without bothering to look at what was actually being proposed.
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