Supporters and opponents of the new Constitution proposed in Chile clashed yesterday Sunday in the center of Santiago, where two rival marches converged, an AFP photojournalist found.
Cyclists marching in favor of the proposed new fundamental law, which will be put to a referendum on September 4, arrived in Piazza Italia, the focus of mass mobilizations in the Latin American country since October 2019, where they were confronted by other protesters, mainly people who came from the countryside, with horses and carriages, to oppose the text.
In the capital’s circular central square, the two sides exchanged insults, threw stones and some cyclists were beaten with clubs.
In video broadcast by Chilean television networks, one of the carriages is shown overturning cyclists by galloping into the march in favor of the proposed Constitution.
The incidents were recorded in the last weekend of campaigning before next Sunday’s referendum, when fifteen of Chile’s nearly twenty million inhabitants will be called to the polls to approve or reject the new Constitution. Participation in the process is mandatory.
If the proposed Constitution is rejected, the current one, a legacy of the military dictatorship of Pinochet (1973-1990), some provisions of which have been revised after the restoration of democracy, will remain in force.
SOURCE: AMPE
Source: Capital
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