At the Congress headquarters in Santiago, Boric will receive the text and the Constitutional Convention composed of 154 members, parity and with reserved indigenous seats, which began its work on July 4, 2021 to draft a Constitution that replaces the current one, in force since the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
On September 4, in a plebiscite with compulsory suffragemore than 15 million Chileans will have to vote “I approve” or “I reject” this text of 388 articles, which includes a new ‘Catalogue of social rights’ and which seeks to establish a Plurinational, intercultural and ecological Chile, with a new political and judicial order.
New era in Chile?
“I think we met the social demands, the wishes of the citizens, what people expected and wanted from this process,” he told AFP. Barbara Sepulvedaconventional of the Communist Party.
“It is a proposal that constitutes a historic advance in democracy and guarantee of social rights for our country, and which is also steeped in feminism from end to end,” he said on his side Skylark Carrilloof the Broad Front.
For Fuad Chainthe only representative in the Convention of the Christian Democratic Party (center), the “text fails” by generating legal uncertainty that will cause “a brake” on the economywhich will prevent the creation of new health, pension and education systems in Chile, the basis of social demands in the country in the last decade.
Constituent Chile
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The drafting of this new Constitution sought to channel the violent protests that broke out in Chile as of October 2019, originally motivated by the rise in the price of the subway in Santiago, but that with the passing of days raised the flags of a greater social equality.
Christian Monckebergright-wing convention -which in the Convention held only 37 of the 154 seats, without the possibility of vetoing the regulations that had to be approved by two thirds- considers that “the possibility of having built something that unites and does not divide” was “wasted”. Chili.
“It was not as simple and friendly as many of us would have wanted and dreamed of. The tensions were stronger,” said the independent writer and conventional Patrick Fernandez. “The healings are longer than the simple will”, she added, about the fights between conventional, along with an active disinformation campaign around the draft of the Constitution.
An unprecedented experience in the world
The unprecedented political composition of the Convention -with a minority right-wing- gave the independent a fundamental role, with a total of 104 representatives, mostly linked to the left and many of them arising from the social unrest or student demonstrations.
“The people united, advance without parties,” shouted a group of conventionalists, at the end of the last vote on Tuesday, arousing anger and reproaches from Chilean analysts, intellectuals and historians, who saw in that song a divisive and revengeful tone of the most radical left.
But the two-thirds necessary to approve the norms ended up imposing moderation and constructing a text that, if approved, will put Chile at the forefront on various issues, such as the right to abortion and environmental protection.
Constitutional Convention of Chile

Conventions of indigenous peoples celebrate the inclusion of articles on land ownership.
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The Convention also innovated by being parity. Seventy-seven men and the same number of women wrote the text, which also included 17 seats for the first time nativesto settle an old debt with the native peoples, especially the Mapuche.
The text recognizes the concept of plurinationality and grants the indigenous people of Chile certain autonomy, especially in justice.
Looking ahead to the September plebiscite, most polls give the “Rejection” an advantage, but at a time when the final text has not yet been released in its entirety and citizens acknowledge feeling confused.
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