Tag: Chile constitutional reform

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  How the Far Left paves the way for the Far Right, the Chilean experience

  

  By Andrés Velasco
  
  In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention that produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

• Sunday, May 7th 2023 - 12:45 UTC

  Chile votes again to draft new Constitution

  

  Over 15 million Chileans are to vote Sunday in order to form the 50-member body to draft a new Constitution with which to replace the one stemming from the Augusto Pinochet military regime after the previous project was massively turned down in a referendum in September last. Voting is mandatory and fines are imposed on those who cannot justify their omission.

• Wednesday, March 8th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

  Chile's Interior Minister calls for citizen participation in new Constitutional reform effort

  

  Chile's Interior Minister Carolina Tohá admitted the country's previous constitutional reform attempt was a failure and said she was aware that her country could not afford to let that happen again while underlining the importance of citizen participation.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 18:22 UTC

  Chile will have a new Constitution soon, Boric tells UN General Assembly

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York that his country would have a new Constitution “shortly” after the Sept. 7 attempt to get a progressive text approved through a referendum failed to get past the vote of the citizenry.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Boric announces adjustments will be made after Rejection prevailed

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday announced a few “adjustments” will be made to his administration after voters chose to reject the progressive Constitution penned to replace the one from the Agusto Pinochet era.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 17:54 UTC

  Santiago's Stock Exchange booms after Rejection won

  

  Santiago's Stock Exchange reached peak figures Monday after Rejection prevailed in Sunday's referendum, which meant the welfare state failed at least for now to become a reality that would have also included differentiated judiciary systems for native groups.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Chile: New Constitution rejected

  

  Nearly 62% of Chilean voters chose to reject the Constitution drafted by an Assembly called on after the 2020 incidents that led to President Gabriel Boric Foont's election.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Chile's planned Constitution still not likely to survive plebiscite

  

  Chile's planned new Constitution seems to be heading for failure in the upcoming September 4 referendum, according to the latest polls, which show up to 56% of the citizenry would vote against it, between 4 and 12 percentage points above those who would approve it.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Chilean President pledges to improve new Constitution after it is approved

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday said that there was consensus among the ruling coalition to “improve” the new Constitution once the draft is approved through a plebiscite in September.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 21:13 UTC

  Most Chileans oppose new Constitution

  

  According to a survey released in Santiago Monday, 51% of Chileans would not support the new Constitution draft which seeks to replace the one from the Military Dictatorship era of General Augusto Pinochet.