2023-12-18 01:23:00
The draft new Constitution submitted to a plebiscite in Chile this Sunday was rejected by the majority of citizens and admitted by official and opposition authorities, who agreed to point out that They will not promote another process to try to update the current Magna Carta, enacted in 1980, during the dictatorship.
The rejection of the text brought together 55.76% of valid votes against 44.24% approval when the count had been completed 99,68% of the 39,728 total tables, the Electoral Service (Servel) reported on its website. The draft of the new Constitution, written mostly by right-wing partieswould have replaced the one developed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
The previous and failed projectwritten mostly by conventional constituents left-wing and independent, was rejected by 61% of Chileans in the plebiscite of September 4, 2022. The president Gabriel Boric He stated tonight that the two similar processes in two years, both failed, “polarized the country”, so “politics has remained in debt to Chile.”
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