Chile's Constitutional Assembly has presented President Gabriel Boric with a historic proposal for a new constitution for the South American country, Chileans will decide whether to adopt or reject the constitution in a nationwide plebiscite September 4.
Chileans will decide whether to adopt or reject the constitution in a nationwide plebiscite on September 4."I know, and all of Chile is conscious that this hasn't been easy. And it's that, dear compatriots, democracy isn't easy," Boric said after receiving a copy of the draft document.
How to write a new constitution for a divided and unequal ChileThe process towards potentially replacing the constitution inherited from the late General Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990, was sparked by a metro fare increase three years ago. Massive protests and riots throughout the country in the fall of 2019 forced then-president Sebastián Piñera to agree to a referendum on rewriting the constitution.
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