Following the latest events that have affected our country, the Director of the Center for Economics and Social Policies, Claudia Sanhueza, has expressed her vision of these mobilizations in different media, such as CNN Chile, Mega, and recently publishing an opinion column in La Tercera entitled “The legitimation of inequality”.
Claudia Sanhueza identifies that one of the main needs of Chileans is to hold a constituent assembly that allows addressing the demands of the people through a radical change, which would aim to modify the constitution that currently governs the country, which would lead to changes more structural
In his column “The legitimization of inequality”, he talks about the policies that Chile could choose to improve the unequal distribution of income, but also raises the real problem to achieve that goal: who, and how it is decided.
The law approval system in the Chilean Congress hinders the validation of policies against inequality, since the minimum consensus presents two problems, which are the need to obtain more votes than the simple majority, and the derivation of the Draft Law to the Constitutional Court, which prevents the opportunity for these laws to be passed.
