The referendum on the new constitution is set for September 4
In Chile, the Constituent Assembly is working to draft a new constitution to replace the current one, which was ratified in 1980.
The new text will be submitted to President Gabriel Boric on July 5th.
AFP
The government announced on Tuesday that a referendum on Chile’s new constitution, currently being drafted by the Constituent Assembly, would take place on September 4.
“The deadline for the referendum to approve or reject the new constitutional text is Sunday, September 4, 2022,” the Presidential Secretariat said in a statement.
September 4 is a symbolic date in Chile, where the presidential election traditionally took place until the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, which overthrew Socialist President Salvador Allende and ushered in a seventeen-year dictatorship (1973-1990).
Independent citizens
The Constituent Assembly began its work on July 4, 2021 to draft a new constitution aimed at changing the current constitution, which was approved in 1980 under military rule. After nine months of work, the legislature voted in favor of a three-month extension of a maximum of one year, in accordance with its laws.
The new text will be delivered to President Gabriel Bori on July 5, and the Chileans will have two months to study the text, which will determine whether a referendum is mandatory. If approved, the text will change the current constitution. If rejected, the latter will be in effect.
The establishment of a 154-member Constituent Assembly, elected by a majority of independent citizens unrelated to traditional political parties, represents a way out of the institutional crisis of the October 2019 broad social uprising against social inequality.
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