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5 September 2022
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An overwhelming majority voted in 2020 to change the Chilean Constitution. But the vast majority voted this Sunday once morest the proposal presented.
Comparing the map of Sunday’s results with those of the 2020 plebiscite, in which almost 80% of Chileans voted to change the 1980 Constitution, shows an enormous change, an apparent paradox that we explain in this article.
This is the map of the 2020 plebiscite, in which you can see how the yes to change the Constitution was imposed throughout Chile.
And this is this Sunday. Everything that was green in 2020 has now become purple, the color of the “rejection” of the proposed Constitution.
7.8 million Chileans, almost 62% of the voters, rejected this Sunday the proposed new Constitution.
The “rejection” was imposed in the 16 regions of the country without exceptions. Only eight of the 346 communes in the country voted in favor of the proposal.
With a historic turnout of 13 million people -voting was mandatory in the plebiscite-, “approval” obtained barely 38% of the votes nationwide.
After the triumph in the 2020 plebiscite, a Convention of 155 members was elected in 2021 and commissioned to write it. The constituent process was seen as a solution to the crisis of the social outbreak of 2019.
The results of both queries seem to indicate that Chileans want a new Constitutionbut not the proposal that was put to the vote this Sunday.
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