Chile s constitutional moment is an opportunity to enhance social rights
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Chile s constitutional moment is an opportunity to enhance social rights
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May 19, 2021
Voting in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday, the second day of the Constitutional Convention election.Credit.Esteban Felix/Associated Press
By Ariel Dorfman
Mr. Dorfman is a Chilean-American novelist, playwright and essayist. He has been active in Chilean politics for over 50 years, including service in the government of Salvador Allende (1970 to 1973).
Over the weekend, the people of Chile voted in a historic election to select the members of a body tasked with drafting a new Constitution to replace the one written in 1980 under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The final tally dealt a severe blow to the followers of General Pinochet, many of whom make up the center-right and right-wing coalition Chile Vamos, backed by the current president, Sebastián Piñera, which won just 37 of the 155 seats for the Constitutional Convention. Chileans, especially the young, also rejected the traditional center-left parties as insufficiently responsive to peopleâs craving