"If a plebiscite Citizenship demonstrated against mercantilist Position"

The Association of Teachers of Chile has been featured along side students and higher education, the mass mobilizations that have been generated in recent weeks calling for a profound transformation in the management of formal education in the country, effervescence is complicated, with which came with HidroAysén and demands for greater equality, the government of Sebastián Piñera. For many, the cry of discontent born citizen of Chileans do not only with the neoliberal socioeconomic model but with the form of political representation analysis which is consistent with a high level of disapproval reached in the latest polls by all clusters partisan.

It is in this context that the guild has come to support the holding of plebiscites ayseninos community for their views on projects and electricity dams in Aysen, who want to build HidroAysén and Southern Energy. "What we as a College of Teachers is that any democratic decision must be supported by the public. And there's nothing more democratic than the people to decide freely, what they want, what they want, which is what people aspire to live as a better country, "said regional president about the order, Rosa Pesutic. The leader drew special attention to this call is born from the people themselves, who" is the ideal, because it is showing that strength comes from those who truly want the changes ".

On the inconvenience expressed by some to move from representative democracy to a participatory, with increased citizen involvement in decision-making level, Pesutic said "I look with envy those countries where people can plebiscite everything. What kind of education you want, if you want or not the waters are the state, if you want the basics of the country belong to state or traded on the market. "He concluded:" I think the issue in public education, not a mega dams that mean destroy our natural environment and destroy the local culture are issues that the citizens feel like their own, and if a plebiscite I assure that the public will speak out against all mercantilist position. "