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Mapuche woman elected president of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
This post is also available in: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Mapuche Elisa Loncón is elected president of the Constitutional Convention: (Image by Stock File)
“we express our solidarity for the suffering of the native peoples of canada”.
By Claudia Aranda
The Mapuche teacher, together with the ancestral spiritual authority, Machi Francisca Linconao, went up to the podium, where the new president of the Constitutional Convention that will draft a new Magna Carta for Chile, the first truly democratic and broadly participatory in the entire republican history of the country, and, there in front of everyone, including members of the political elite of the ruling party who have always treated them as criminals or pariahs and second or third class human beings, she addressed not only the Convention members but also the C
Indigenous leader elected president of Chile’s new Constituent Assembly – 07/04/2021 – world
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Mapuche leader Elisa Loncon, one of the 17 deputies elected by the quota of indigenous peoples, was chosen this Sunday (4) as president of the new Constituent Assembly of Chile.
From now on, it will be up to him to organize the progress of the drafting of the articles of the new Charter of the country and to articulate the dialogue between the different benches that make up the body. Of the 155 members of the Casa, Loncon received 96 votes.
After being elected, she thanked in Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people, and in Spanish. In her speech, she said Chile must become a multicultural country and defended the release of young people who are still imprisoned today due to the anti-government protests that began in 2019.
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