Chile 2022 plebiscite results, live | The Chilean Minister of Finance confirms the changes in Boric’s cabinet for this Tuesday

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The rejection of the new Constitution has been roundly imposed in Chile. With 99.98% of the tables counted, the refusal of the proposed text submitted to a plebiscite has won with 61.87% of the votes. The approval received 38.13%. – rejection – approval – blank – null “The Chilean people were not satisfied with the proposed Constitution and, therefore, have decided to clearly reject it at the polls,” acknowledged the president, Gabriel Boric, in a televised message. “Facing these important challenges will require prompt adjustments in our government teams, to face this new period with renewed vigor”, said the president, who has announced adjustments in the Government and has called on all political forces to agree on the deadlines of a new process. More than 13 million people have voted in a weekend of great call. 15.1 million Chileans had been called to vote in the plebiscite in which the no has finally won by a wide margin, in all the regions of the country the Rejection has won. The president has summoned all the parties to a meeting this Monday to analyze the “continuity of the constituent process.” Follow the last hour in EL PAÍS: New publications of the Treasury, Mario Marcel, confirmed on Monday night that the announced change of cabinet will take place this Tuesday. As the president, Gabriel Boric, had anticipated, after knowing the triumph of the rejection. Boric promised to give “new energy” to the Government. On the list of condemned are two figures of the maximum trust of him: the Minister of the Interior, Izkya Siches, and Giorgio Jackson, the minister in charge of relations with Congress and a lifelong friend of the president. The Latin American left stumbles in Chile after a long cycle of triumphs The long cycle of victories of the new left in Latin America faltered on Sunday night in Chile, precisely the country that at the end of last year gave a new impulse to that axis with Gabriel Boric triumph. In June, Gustavo Petro followed him in Colombia, the first clearly progressive president in his history, and both consolidated a trend that, since 2018, decided presidents from Argentina to Mexico, passing through Honduras, Bolivia and, with many more nuances, Peru. Francesco Manetto and Juan Diego Quesada write about the blow that the left in the region received this Sunday in this piece. In the photo, from Reuters, people who reject the draft of the new Constitution celebrate, after knowing the results of the referendum, in Vaparaíso, on September 4. sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 23:17 UTC The reasons for the rejection?The Cadem poll publishes the results of its Sunday poll:1. Because the process that the constituents carried out was very bad (40%)2. Because of the instability and uncertainty it generates (35%)3. For plurinationality and indigenous autonomy (29%)Antonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 22:05 UTCAntonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 21:59 UTC The return of compulsory voting? Several debates have been opened based on the result of the constitutional plebiscite . One of them, and perhaps the least controversial, is the possible restoration of compulsory voting. A record 85.81% turnout (13,021,063 voters) turned the rejection of the new Constitution into the strongest electoral expression produced in Chile in 32 years of democratic restoration. In 2012 Chile moved to voluntary suffrage and since then the participation has been close to half of the electoral register.Antonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 21:41 UTC After participating in the meeting with the political committee in La Moneda, the president of the Communist Party, Guillermo Teillier, confirmed that the party will participate in the constituent process. “We are going to be willing to talk with everyone, even with the Republican Party (of the extreme right) if they sit down tomorrow to what the president has called.”Antonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 20:53 UTCAntonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 20 :26 UTC The founder of the Spanish party Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero, came to Chile this weekend to witness how the South American country voted “to leave the Pinochet Constitution”, as he announced. At night he went to the Approval command to wait for the results, according to La Tercera, where his participation went practically unnoticed. The investigating judge of the National High Court ordered in mid-July to open a case to investigate money laundering and document fraud against Monedero, for a transfer of 425,000 euros that the political scientist was paid in 2013 for advising several Latin American governments through the company Caja de Resistencia Motiva 2 Producciones SL Antonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 20:19 UTC The minister voc was of Government, Camilla Vallejo, has recognized the central role that Congress will have in the path that has been opened to think again about a constitutional proposal. “Dialogue is central and through dialogue the foundations for the new process will be reached,” said the minister, who briefly referred to the controversial tweet by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, after the insistence of the press. “We, I insist, what we read about this is that the majority of the citizens spoke, and what they want is an opportunity to have a new constitutional text made and drafted in a democracy.” sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 19:06 UTC The spokeswoman for The Government assured that although it lost the official proposal, Chileans want changes and the way forward for the Government is to continue working to achieve them. “We cannot continue waiting to deliver decent pensions, decent health, nor transformation. That is why we will continue working for a program of transformations”. The basis for the constituent process is laid out, according to the minister, who has said that there will be a democratic election of its members and it will be, once again, parity. sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 18:56 UTC The minister spokesperson of Government, Camila Vallejo, speaks from La Moneda after the meeting of the political committee. “We want to start by valuing yesterday’s process. A calm and impeccable democratic process (…) Chilean men and women have demanded a new opportunity to meet, a second chance to have a new Constitution that represents us all.” . sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 18:53 UTC Michelle Bachelet, the only one of the former presidents of Chile who was going for approval, has said that the resounding triumph of rejection “is a result that we have to read carefully”. From Geneva, the former president added that she felt “totally unidentified” by the unifying speech that Gabriel Boric gave yesterday to the citizens.Antonia Laborde05 Sep 2022 – 17:57 UTC At the end of the political committee in La Moneda, Patricio Morales, president of the Liberal Party, has recognized that the victory of the rejection was not the scenario they wanted, but they accept it because “it has been the people who have spoken”. Regarding the meeting with President Gabriel Boric, the politician has assured that the parties have ratified their support for the president and have announced their willingness to “continue walking together”. “We received the result with humility, the people of Chile have told us that they want changes. Yesterday we suffered a defeat and it was a defeat that we recognize together”, h has recognized the press. sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 17:50 UTCsally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 17:33 UTCsally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 17:08 UTC The European Union “takes note” of Chile’s commitment to seek a Constitution with more supportThe European Union (EU) said this Monday that “takes note” of the commitment of the political forces in Chile to seek a new “constitutional arrangement” that gathers the support of a large majority of citizens, after the rejection of the text put to the vote on Sunday. “The EU takes note of the commitment expressed by President (Gabriel) Boric and from the entire political spectrum on the need to continue with the constitutional process, in accordance with the desire of the Chilean people for a new constitutional arrangement that gathers the support of a broad majority of citizens,” he said. in a statement the EU External Action Service, which expressed its intention to continue strengthening its relationship with Chile “based on our long-standing association and our shared values ​​and interests, and is ready to share its experience in building more inclusive and prosperous democratic societies”. With information from Efe.sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 16:43 UTC Chile: the 30-year struggle Broad, as if it were made up of a stingy and neoliberal elite dominating an abused people, in need of redemption, it is not consistent with reality”, writes Carlos Peña, in an analysis of what Chile experienced yesterday. Read the full text here.In the photo, from Reuters, a caravan celebrates the rejection of the new Constitution.sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 16:15 UTC Why did Chileans say ‘no’ to the proposed new Constitution? One of the big questions after yesterday’s results is why the text drafted by the most democratic body in Chile’s history — parity, with seats reserved for indigenous peoples, with independents — has not been supported by the citizenry. The journalist Rocío Montes explains in this piece the five keys that explain what happened and why the majority chose to reject the proposal. In the photo, from the AFP agency, voters of the rejection option celebrate in the streets of Santiago. sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 15:53 ​​UTC Hello! I greet you from Santiago, where an unprecedented vote took place yesterday, as the president of the Chilean Electoral Service, Andrés Tagle, assured a few minutes ago: “We closed a historic day with an unprecedented turnout: 13,021,063 people attended the ballot boxes to express their option in a peaceful way, in what was a new celebration of democracy”. According to the last bulletin of the entity, with 99.99% of the polling stations counted, the results of the rejection option reached 7,882,958 votes, corresponding to 61.86%, while approval achieved 4,860,093 votes, corresponding to 38 .14%. sally palomino05 Sep 2022 – 15:29 UTC See full liveSubscribe here to the EL PAÍS América newsletter and receive all the key information on current affairs in the region.