Chile: the left and the independents elected to rewrite the constitution inherited from Pinochet
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The two lists which bring together candidates from left-wing parties, ranging from the center-left to the Communist Party, which intend to propose a new model for the country with various social rights guaranteed, such as education, health or housing, collect 33, 22% of the vote.
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By: Adrien Delgrange
22 mins
Chilean voters have abandoned traditional parties and turned to independent candidates to appoint the 155 drafters responsible for rewriting the country's constitution, which dates from the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), accused of being in the origin of deep social inequalities.
Publicity
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The citizens sent a clear and strong message to the government and also to all traditional political forces
: we are not sufficiently in tune with the demands and desires of the citizens and we are challenged by new expressions and new leadership.
Said Conservative President Sebastian Piñera.
Chile or how the right in power suffers a heavy electoral defeat.
This is what we are going to analyze with our guest Antoine Maillet, researcher at the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Chile.
Brazil
: death at 41 of the mayor of São Paulo, Bruno Covas
The mayor (center right) of
São
Paulo, Bruno Covas, died Sunday, at the age of 41, of a cancer of the digestive system from which he had suffered since 2019, the Syrian-Lebanese hospital said in a statement. the city, the economic capital of Brazil, where he was treated.
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Mayor Bruno Covas died today at 8:20 am as a result of cancer (of the digestive system) with metastases, and its complications after a long period of treatment
", details a press release from the hospital.
United States
:
in California, it is only May and already the forest fires are starting again
A fire started Friday night in a forest west of Los Angeles.
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The flames have already consumed 1,324 hectares and have forced the evacuation of about a thousand residents who live near Topanga Canyon,
" reports the
Los Angeles Times.
And in the journal des Outre-mers
The end of “compelling reasons” for going overseas, unfortunately, may not be tomorrow.
With Benoît Ferrand.
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