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CHILEANS voted strongly against a proposed new constitution, results published today show.
The result — a 69.1 per cent No vote with 99.9 per cent of votes counted — is a setback for left-wing President Gabriel Boric, who called representatives from all political parties to a meeting at the presidential palace to discuss the way forward.
The new constitution had been drafted by a convention split equally between men and women, and would have replaced the country’s current constitution which dates from the days of the Pinochet dictatorship.
It would have recognised Chile as a plurinational state like Bolivia, giving indigenous peoples a weightier constitutional status, as well as autonomous territories with distinct legal systems, and given respect for the environment and equality between the sexes constitutional force. Free healthcare and education and access to housing would have become rights.
Most opponents of the constitution agree that the Pinochet-era constitution must be replaced. A process to revise or completely redraft a new constitution is now likely.
