After being worked on for a year, Chile's new draft constitution will be officially submitted to President Gabriel Boric on Monday before eventually being put to a referendum in the deeply polarized…
SANTIAGO - Chile's constitutional convention on Monday handed its proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric ahead of a planned September referendum on adopting the text.
After being worked on for a year, Chile’s new draft constitution was officially yesterday to be submitted to Chilean President Gabriel Boric, before eventually being put to a referendum in the deeply polarized country.
The new text, which would replace the constitution written during Chilean President Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990), aims to establish new social rights.
It was drawn up by a constituent assembly of 154 citizens most of whom were independent of political affiliation that was to be dissolved a year to the day after it began work on July 4 last year.
The document is to put to a
After a year of work, Chile's new draft constitution will be officially presented to President Gabriel Boric on Monday before it finally faces a referendum in
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