A demonstrator holds an object during a rally as constitutional assembly members hold first session to draft a new constitution, in Santiago, Chile, on Jul 4, 2021. SANTIAGO: The swearing in of the architects of Chile's new constitution got off to an inauspicious start on Sunday after protests outside and inside the venue, and clashes with police forced a delay to the event.
Amid demands by delegates for"repressive" special forces police to be withdrawn, the electoral court official presiding over the ceremony agreed to suspend the event until midday. Vale Miranda, at 20 the youngest constitutional delegate, wrote on Twitter that she and other delegates sought to stop heavy-handed security forces blocking protesters from marching.
Chileans voted overwhelmingly to tear up the current constitution drafted during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in a referendum last year. Unrecognised in the current constitution, they are hoping a new text will afford their nations new cultural, political and social rights. The inauguration is not the first sign of tensions in the process. Last month, when Pinera sought to remind delegates of the need not to overstep their remit, he was slapped down by some delegates who said they would set their own rules.
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