Chilean students ask for plebiscite as demonstrations continue

Chilean students called President Sebastian Piñera “unyielding” and refuse to go back to the negation table and press for an education plebiscite to be carried out. Incidents were reported today at Technology University surroundings in the Capital Santiago and last night when the police tried to clear the university premises. Piñera has fail to present a new proposition for the Chilean educational system.

“ It is a hardliner demonstration from the government. It represents a disregard for the students and moreover a general disrespect,” said Francisco Figueroa vice president of Chile University student Federation. Rodrigo Rivera, spokesman for the Metropolitan stu Rodrigo Rivera dents, stressed “ it is very hard to establish a negotiation table. Back in 2006, we tried in the past. It didn’t worked out.”

Though social Networks the students vowed to press on the protests for the remain of the week.

Billionaire Sebástian Pinera is the least popular leader in two decades since Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship, one recent poll showed. The Chilean leader popularity has fallen to 26 percent. Students in Chile want the national government to take over the public school system, where 90 percent of the country's 3.5 million students are educated. The students say the system is underfunded and deeply inequitable.