The reform, which mixes elected and appointed bodies, had already gone through the Senate and is now expected to be promulgated by President Gabriel Boric.
For decades the Constitution inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) has been pointed out as responsible for the political, economic and social model prevailing in Chile. The social outbreak of October 2019 promoted the idea that it was time to write a new Magna Carta.
In this new constituent process, three instances will work, unlike the previous one, whose draft was drawn up by a parity convention of 154 members elected by popular vote and with quotas reserved for indigenous peoples.
This time only the 50 members of the Constitutional Council will be elected in an election, on May 7th. The 24 members of the Commission of Experts and the 14 of the Technical Admissibility Committee will be designated by the Congress.
Both the Commission of Experts, which will write the first draft, and the Admissibility Committee must begin their work on March 6.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Council will begin work on June 7. To approve the regulations and articles of the draft, the favorable vote of three fifths of the directors will be required, not the two thirds of the previous process.
The current constitutional reform establishes an exit plebiscite that must be carried out in December.
Source: Ambito
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