According to the more than 40 signatories, the new Magna Carta creates the legal bases for the southern nation to successfully begin a new stage of equitable growth, and they invited the rest of the world to learn from the initiative.

The draft of the fundamental Law will be approved or not in a popular referendum on September 4, after a strong campaign to attract the vote in favor of one of the options.

The aforementioned letter highlights that in terms of economic development, the constitutional proposal is a visionary document, with prospects of attracting investment, protecting financial stability and promoting development, hence the support expressed in the document.

Signatories, including the former special rapporteur and president of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Human Rights Cultural Philip Alston, support the visionary document.

The statement also highlights the responsibility of the State endorsed in the Magna Carta project in the face of problems that require urgent action such as climate change, sustainable development and economic insecurity.

Other aspects include the treatment of gender issues, especially women’s health, the right to reproduction, and the recognition of care work, how to address social security, human rights and access to basic services as education and health.

Among those who signed the document are also the former director of Globalization and Development Strategies Division at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Yilmaz Ayküz, and the specialist of the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Óscar Ugarteche, among others.

If the new Constitution is approved in Chile, it would replace the current one, in force since 1980, drafted and approved by the Military Junta led by dictator Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).

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